George Albert Smith · 1907 October General Conference · 1907-10-05
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Eighth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1907), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1907sa). 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.
Heavyweight pass: anchored source_url to page; removed printed synopsis line; corrected fidelity_notes conference ordinal; extensive OCR letter-error cleanup.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1907sa DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). Resolved the bare_ia_source_link WARN: anchored source_url to leaf 35. Removed the printed synopsis line. Corrected fidelity_notes conference ordinal (Seventy-Seventh -> Seventy-Eighth). Fixed roughly 15 OCR letter errors and stray punctuation throughout, notably a badly garbled clause fixed to 'they have no children of their own, and by no fault of their own' (was 'they haye r.c children...by no ff ult'), plus understanding1 -> understanding, thev -> they, cast it. out -> cast it out, stray apostrophes/periods removed, preaching- -> preaching, and- -> and, a stray o removed before the closing benediction line. Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with Smith own remarks, ends at his Amen followed by the genuine trailing session-closing record (hymn, adjournment, benediction).
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