Joseph F. Smith · 1906 April General Conference · 1906-04-06
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. This is President Joseph F. Smith's opening address of the conference. Removed a leaked running-head artifact and a leaked page-number artifact from the body; extensive other OCR misreads and stray marks corrected against the witness. 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 (opening address of the conference). Removed a leaked running-head artifact ('GENERAL. CONFEItKNCI.J') and a leaked page-number artifact ('F>') from the body. Corrected extensive other OCR misreads and stray marks throughout (dozens of instances: hi->in, dutv->duty, art->are, auxiliai^->auxiliary, and many others) verbatim against the witness.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.