Stephen L. Chipman · 1908 April General Conference · 1908-04-05
Heavyweight page-by-page collation against the Internet Archive scan/OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference (April 1908), hosted at conferencereport1908a. Confirmed the boundary: the talk begins at the real "ELDER STEPHEN L. CHIPMAN." heading (OCR-misread "ELDEK") and "(President of Alpine Stake.)" tagline that open the Second Overflow Meeting (Assembly Hall, 2 p.m., Elder Rudger Clawson presiding), following the session's opening hymn and prayer, which are session material and not part of the talk. Confirmed the talk ends at "...I ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen." before a false mid-page running head ("BISHOP JOHN W. HART.") that interrupts the talk at the page-60/61 break; the true Hart heading follows a page later. 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 (conferencereport1908a, leaf n60); page-by-page collation against the scan/OCR witness confirmed speaker, supplied title, exact date, session (corrected from "Sunday Afternoon Overflow Session" to "Second Overflow Meeting" to match the actual session heading at the true talk boundary), and talk order. Confirmed talk boundary against the session-opening hymn/prayer (excluded from the body) and a false mid-page running-head interruption ("BISHOP JOHN W. HART." at the page-60/61 break, not a real talk break); the true end of the talk is "...Amen." before the genuine Hart heading a page later. Body text matches the witness verbatim paragraph by paragraph; left period print-typo artifacts ("witlh," "opportuntiy," "Wsidom," "who>," "aim ;") as printed per the restraint principle, since they read as genuine period typesetting artifacts rather than unambiguous scan-reading errors, consistent with the sibling Grant talk's treatment of similar artifacts.
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