Franklin D. Richards · 1886 April General Conference · 1886-04-04
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; speaker did not review.
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; speaker did not review.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the full Deseret News April 13, 1886 proceedings text (plus later standalone reprints where applicable); replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with the real source text.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fetched and read the full Deseret News proceedings for this conference (Apr 13, 1886 issue, pg. 198-199, 205-206) plus the First Presidency's separately published Epistle (same issue, pg. 194-196) and 2 standalone full-discourse reprints from a later issue (May 5, 1886, covering Richards's opening and closing remarks), via historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com (newspapers.lib.utah.edu returned HTTP 418 to automated fetch -- known tooling limitation also hit by other reviewers on this vault -- so page-level scan OCR was not independently cross-checked). Cross-referenced the conference's own roll call of general authorities present and the full session-by-session table of contents to verify speaker, date, and session for every talk in this conference; this conference was held at Provo during the anti-polygamy 'Underground' period, with Apostle Franklin D. Richards presiding and the First Presidency communicating only by written epistle. Replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with Franklin D. Richards's real, full standalone 'Opening Remarks' reprint, delivered as the presiding officer of this conference (First Day, Apr 4); date/session already matched the real source.
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