Joseph F. Smith · 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: collated against the djvu OCR of conferencereport1903sa (source_url page anchor confirmed). This is a business-session record (sustaining of general/local officers and mission presidents), not a sermon. Found the body was truncated mid-sentence at 'unanimously in'; restored the final three words verbatim from the scan. Confirmed complete: the next material is a new speaker's byline (President Joseph F. Smith, filed separately as 1903-10-smith-priesthood-and-material-affairs.md). Content matches the OCR witness verbatim.
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