Lewis W. Shurtliff · 1905 April General Conference · 1905-04-09
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Fifth Annual Conference (April 1905), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1905a). OCR corrected by hand (running heads and line-break hyphenation removed, paragraphing restored, obvious OCR errors corrected). Not yet proofread line-by-line against page images. Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
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 had wrongly merged THREE separate items: leading session material (opening hymn/prayer/choir), a brief Joseph F. Smith address, and a full Hyrum M. Smith discourse, all preceding Shurtliff's own real talk. Removed the leading session material and split the two Smith items into their own new files (1905-04-smith-loyalty-to-nation-and-church.md, 1905-04-smith-h-evils-of-internal-dissension.md); this file now contains only Shurtliff's genuine remarks (opening '(President of Weber Stake.) My beloved brothers and sisters...'). Renumbered talk_order for this session (17-22) to accommodate the two newly split files. Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1905a) that the closing 'Amen' is intact. 0 QC ERRORs.
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