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Opening Address

Lorenzo Snow · 1899 April General Conference · 1899-04-06

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Sixty-ninth Annual Conference (April 1899), scanned and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1899a). OCR was cleaned and corrected: running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed; obvious OCR errors fixed. Not yet proofread page-by-page against the scan images, so minor residual OCR errors may remain (status: draft, pending review).

Witnesses

No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Light review: in-context proofread, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: this file was truncated mid-sentence, cut off by a mid-body running-head bleed ('ELDER RUDGER CLAWSON', the next speaker's page-transition catchword). Recovered the missing closing sentences from the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1899a) through the genuine 'Amen'. Confirmed date/session/talk_order correct; this is President Lorenzo Snow's opening address of his first conference as President of the Church (Wilford Woodruff having died September 1898). 0 QC ERRORs.

Corrections

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