Rudger Clawson · 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 the Internet Archive (conferencereport1908a). Talk boundary and OCR 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 and OCR cleanup checked.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative IA Conference Report source verified (conferencereport1908a); page-by-page collation against the scan/OCR witness (djvu lines 3245-3544) confirmed boundary — opens the Second Day Morning Session immediately after the "SECOND DAY." session header/call to order/opening hymn (all removed from the body per repo convention; synopsis line retained), and ends immediately before Hyrum M. Smith's address. Corrected OCR misreads verbatim against the witness: "Pligh-Priests"->"High-Priests", "sis the Priesthood"->"is the Priesthood", "farreaching"->"far-reaching" (rejoined line-break hyphenation), "Patriarch,with"->"Patriarch, with" (dropped space), "asassembled"->"assembled" (duplicated line-break fragment), "with with Jehovah"->"with Jehovah", "annointed"->"anointed", "despensation"->"dispensation", "fight him in in vain"->"fight him in vain" (duplicated word), the stray mid-phrase period in "died as a . martyr"->"died as a martyr" and in "glorious .work"->"glorious work", "un til finally"->"until finally" (rejoined line-break split), "Prophet of God. and"->"Prophet of God, and" (period/comma misread), "ChurchMay"->"Church — May" (dropped dash at a line-break, restored as an em dash to mark the clause break, matching the printed page's own hyphen-at-linebreak artifact), "God,that"->"God, that" (dropped space), and "bessings"->"blessings". Left as printed per the restraint principle: the stray apostrophes in "Patriarchs,'", "'such as", "him'", and "mem'ry" (a plausible period-typical elided hymn spelling), and the stray footnote-like "1" in "wards and,1 the" — all ambiguous printer/OCR artifacts in the witness with no single unambiguous resolution. This completes the review of the first Clawson talk of this conference (distinct from the later, shorter "stability of Church" address).
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