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==Orsamus Turner (1852): "to once and a while blacken the face of the then meddling inquisitive lounger-but afterwards Prophet"==
Orsamus Turner talks of how the made fun of the young Joseph Smith when he came into the office of the ''Palmyra Register'' to pick up his father's paper:
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Once a week [Joseph Smith] would stroll into the office of the old Palmyra Register, for his father's paper. How impious, in us young "dare ''Devils''" to once and a while blacken the face of the then meddling inquisitive lounger-but afterwards Prophet, with the old fashioned balls, when he used to put himself in the way of the working of the old fashioned Ramage press!The editor of the Cultivator, at Albany-esteemed as he may justly consider himself, for his subsequent enterprize and usefulness, may think of it, with contrition and repentance; that he once helped, thus to disfigure the face of a Prophet, and remotely, the founder of a State.. <ref>Orsamus Turner, ''History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase
and Morris’ Reserve'' (1852) 214.</ref>
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