Reed Smoot · 1906 October General Conference · 1906-10-06
Heavyweight page-by-page collation against the Internet Archive scan/OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Seventh Semi-Annual Conference (conferencereport1906sa). Talk boundary, exact session/date/order metadata, and source anchor checked against the report text. Extensive OCR misreads and stray punctuation artifacts corrected against the witness. The quoted Word of Wisdom text (D&C 89) was cross-checked against the well-known canonical text to resolve OCR misreads with confidence.
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 (conferencereport1906sa); page-by-page collation against the scan/OCR witness confirmed speaker, supplied title, exact date, session, and talk order (immediately follows Clawson, ends the Second Day Morning Session; running heads for Smoot mid-talk are not new-talk boundaries). Corrected extensive OCR misreads throughout, including in the quoted Word of Wisdom (D&C 89) text, cross-checked against its well-known canonical wording ("drinketli"->drinketh, "nass"->pass, "thevine"->the vine, "thehearts"->the hearts, and other stray hyphens/bullets/periods). Corrected body-text misreads ("propter"->proper, "Dhvsical"->physical, "monev"->money, "and land"->arid land, "difficultv"->difficulty, repeated "T"/"f"->I). Restored one dropped word ("if I have not done so") 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.