First national recognition of Mormon Tabernacle Choir which receives second prize of $1,000 at Chicago World's Fair. Wilford Woodruff writes: "I think without Doubt that our Quire [Choir] was the Best & should have had the first Prize But the Quire that took the first Prize was Welsh and the Welsh furnished the Money And it Could hardly be Expected that they would give it to a Mormon Quire."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
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