Francis M. Lyman · 1906 April General Conference · 1906-04-08
Heavyweight page-by-page collation against the Internet Archive scan/OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Conference (conferencereport1906a). Talk boundary, exact session/date/order metadata, and source anchor checked against the report text. The sustaining section of this talk had lost, to a mid-ingestion text-stripping bug, the entire "Francis M. Lyman, as President of the Twelve Apostles" line and the entire "William B. Preston, as presiding Bishop..." paragraph, plus the narrator lead-ins before three quoted/reported passages; all restored verbatim from the scan/OCR witness. A leaked page number had also been mistakenly read as a meetinghouse count ("93 splendid new meetinghouses"); corrected to match the witness, which has no number there. Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive Conference Report scan/OCR witness; boundary, metadata, and OCR cleanup checked.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative IA Conference Report source verified (conferencereport1906a); page-by-page collation against the scan/OCR witness confirmed speaker, supplied title, exact date, session, and talk order. Restored two missing lines from the general-authorities sustaining list ('Francis M. Lyman, as President of the Twelve Apostles' and the full William B. Preston presiding-bishopric paragraph) and three dropped narrator lead-ins ('President Lyman then presented...', 'President Lyman announced that the...', 'President Lyman concluded, as follows:'), all verbatim against the witness. Corrected a leaked page-number artifact that had been mistaken for a meetinghouse count ('93 splendid new meetinghouses' -> 'splendid new meetinghouses', no count given in the source), a merged running-head artifact ('afflicPRESIDENT FRANCIS M. LYMAN.' -> 'afflictions'), and numerous other OCR misreads. Could not independently prove a page/n anchor for this talk.
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