Few accounts of the Mormon Church in 1850s Utah tell us about “rag missions” but they were an important calling, and no less than Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball took to the pulpit to exhort LDS households, the women especially, to save and donate their rags to the church printing mill. The reason was critical in those times: it was to gather enough newsprint to publish the new Deseret News, which often moved from weekly to bimonthly due to a serious lack of newsprint.
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