Conference record · 1873 April General Conference · 1873-04-06
Deseret News minutes of the 43rd Annual Conference, with sessions April 6-8, 1873, and additional sessions May 3-4, 1873. Approximately 8,000-10,000 in attendance. First Presidency: Brigham Young, Daniel H. Wells (George A. Smith on Palestine pilgrimage). All 5 discourses with surviving JD full text from the April 6-7 sessions are filed separately as talks: Brigham Young's 'Friends and Enemies...' (Sunday April 6 PM); Orson Hyde's 'Testimony—Sickness in Sanpete County...' and Brigham Young's 'The Order of Enoch...' (Monday April 7 AM, with Orson Pratt's 'Establishment of the Kingdom of God...' also that morning); and Brigham Young's 'Assistance of the Ladies...' and Wilford Woodruff's 'Home Manufacture...' (Monday April 7 PM) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. The many other named speakers (Taylor, Cannon's several appearances, Smoot, and the May 3-4 continuation speakers: Brigham Young Jr., Joseph F. Smith, McKenzie, Rich, Joseph Young) are recorded only as third-person Deseret News summaries, with no full JD text located — consistent with the bibliography, not a vault gap.
Published minutes of the April 6-8 and May 3-4, 1873 General Conference sessions.
Digital compilation of conference minutes and discourse references.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed a major stale-claims bug (this file wrongly asserted all discourses were 'NOT yet individually transcribed' when 5 were already filed as separate talks) and rewrote the day-by-day summary accordingly.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fixed a stale-claims bug — this file asserted that discourses by Hyde, Pratt, Young, and Woodruff were 'NOT yet individually transcribed,' when all 5 already existed as separately filed talks (reviewed under claude-sonnet-4-6's earlier light pass, each already carrying a precise JD citation). Rewrote the day-by-day summary to name and cross-link all 5 filed discourses by session. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that Taylor, Cannon's several appearances, Smoot, and the May 3-4 continuation speakers (Brigham Young Jr., Joseph F. Smith, McKenzie, Rich, Joseph Young) have no JD citation — summary-only, not an ingestion gap. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
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