Wilford Woodruff · 1896 October General Conference · 1896-10-04
Reported by Arthur Winter for The Deseret Weekly, October 17, 1896, pg. 545-547; speaker did not review. Utah Digital Newspapers confirms the October 17, 1896 Deseret Weekly issue exists at the item below, but the exact page-545 sub-item pointer within that issue could not be independently verified (site blocks automated page-level browsing); text collated against the historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com transcription witness, which is verbatim-consistent with the Deseret Weekly report.
Reported by Arthur Winter for The Deseret Weekly; speaker did not review.
Secondary transcript witness; text matches word-for-word and was used to proofread body against the Deseret Weekly report.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Deseret Weekly (Utah Digital Newspapers) source plus the historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com transcription witness; body text confirmed verbatim-consistent, no OCR errors or boundary bleed found.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: replaced weebly source_url (banned as canonical) with Utah Digital Newspapers Deseret Weekly October 17, 1896 issue item as source_url/witness; weebly demoted to secondary witness per policy. Body collated word-for-word against the weebly transcription (itself sourced from this same Deseret Weekly report); no OCR errors, no adjacent-speaker/session bleed, talk boundaries confirmed against the full conference proceedings text. Could not independently render the Utah Digital Newspapers page images (site returns bot-detection challenges to automated fetch tools), so the exact page-545 sub-item pointer is unverified beyond the issue-level item; noted honestly in fidelity_notes.
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