B. H. Roberts · 1903 October General Conference · 1903-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-fourth Semi-Annual Conference (October 4-6, 1903), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1903sa). OCR was reconstructed from the Internet Archive XML with the repository reading-order helper and cleaned by script (running heads and line-break hyphenation removed, paragraphing restored, and obvious OCR artifacts corrected). Not yet proofread line-by-line against the page images; a final scan check is still needed. Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report. Title is supplied.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread, encoding-artifact cleanup, 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: resolved the prior blocker by completing the transcription. Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1903sa's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) and confirmed this file's earlier partial draft had left a truncated, duplicate copy of the talk's opening (ending mid-sentence at '...the dawning of a brighter day has arisen...') ahead of the session's Ashworth musical interlude and the topic-list byline, followed by a second, complete copy of the same opening continuing all the way to the real close. Removed the truncated duplicate opening and the interlude/topic-list material (session business, not part of the discourse), keeping one clean, complete copy of Elder Roberts' address from 'My brethren and sisters...' through the closing 'Amen.' De-hyphenated and fixed OCR letter errors throughout (ocasion->occasion, hav*->have, three-quarters->three-quarters, donvn->down, arcund->around, halluc'nations/halluci*nations->hallucinations, powj ers->powers, philoso-pher->philosopher, cut of->out of, crystal ize->crystallize, v/as->was, o.her->other, i(s->its, pow-er->power, prerent->present, *vaujd->would, accompHshment->accomplishment, pr«jv5sion...fov tha"7->provision...for that?, m His Church, first of .'ill Twelve->in His Church, first of all Twelve, enpire->empire, bodly->body, nundred->hundred, Teahers->Teachers, canning on->carrying on, Drovisions->provisions, mem-ber->member, organisation->organization). Confirmed clean boundaries: begins right after the byline/topic-list (session material, correctly excluded from the body) and ends at Roberts' own 'Amen' before President Joseph F. Smith's following remarks. Corrected source_url leaf from an earlier estimate (n73) to the confirmed n71 (the byline's own leaf).
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