George A. Smith · 1874 April General Conference · 1874-05-09
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 17, pp. 80-84. Reported by David W. Evans in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by David W. Evans; speaker did not review.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 17, page 80.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body confirmed against the IA scan, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed JD 17:80-84 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). No Weebly page exists for this conference (1874-april.html and variants all 404); relied directly on the IA OCR scan of JD Volume 17 for verification. Added session ("Saturday Session") and talk_order (1) inferred from the conference's own printed page order and each file's existing date (no agenda source available to confirm AM/PM session labels). Opening and closing lines confirmed verbatim against the IA OCR scan of JD Volume 17 (closing '...independent, comfortable and happy, and owe no man anything.', the conference's final filed discourse); no truncation.
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