Brigham Young Jr. · 1896 October General Conference · 1896-10-05
This is the Deseret Weekly's own third-person editorial summary of Brigham Young Jr.'s Monday morning session remarks (following Franklin D. Richards' discourse), not a verbatim report of his words. Graded fragmentary per the fidelity rubric: a topic synopsis is not a record of what was actually said. This talk is not separately cited by page in the weebly citation index, but source is confirmed via BYU ContentDM (desnews5 collection): the October 10, 1896 Deseret Weekly item titled "General Conference" (dmrecord 26972, pg. 524-528) turns out to span the whole conference through Monday morning, and its OCR text contains the synopsis paragraph beginning "ELDER [BRIGHAM] YOUNG [of the Council of the Twelve] ... said [that God] was managing affairs pertaining to the earth and the people were in His hands" -- matching this file's body, immediately followed by Francis M. Lyman's remarks in the same source text.
Deseret Weekly's own summary of the speaker's remarks, not a verbatim transcript. OCR text confirmed to match via BYU ContentDM's dmGetItemInfo API (itemtr field).
Secondary transcript witness; text matches word-for-word.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the BYU ContentDM OCR text plus the historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com transcription witness; confirmed this is the paper's own editorial synopsis (not verbatim speech), graded fidelity as fragmentary accordingly.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: replaced weebly source_url (banned as canonical) with the verified BYU ContentDM (desnews5) "General Conference" compound article for October 10, 1896 (dmrecord 26972) -- discovered via the ContentDM dmwebservices API that this single long article actually spans the whole conference from Sunday through Monday morning (through Franklin D. Richards' opening remarks and into Francis M. Lyman's), and its OCR text contains this exact synopsis paragraph (allowing for OCR noise); weebly demoted to secondary witness per policy. Boundary confirmed against the full conference proceedings context (Monday morning session, follows Franklin D. Richards' discourse synopsis, precedes Francis M. Lyman's remarks).
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