John Henry Smith · 1908 April General Conference · 1908-04-04
Heavyweight page-by-page collation against the Internet Archive scan/OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference (conferencereport1908a). Talk boundary and exact session/date/order metadata checked against the report text. 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); page-by-page collation against the scan/OCR witness (lines 2331-2823) confirmed speaker is John Henry Smith (Quorum of the Twelve) despite the filename's generic "smith-" prefix -- not Joseph F. Smith -- and confirmed against the frontmatter speaker field. Boundary confirmed: starts immediately after the "ELDER JOHN HENRY SMITH." heading (running-head repeats later read "ELDER JOHN H. SMITH." -- page headers, not new talks) and ends immediately before "ELDER HEBER J. GRANT." Removed the printed subject-list synopsis block from the body (non-talk editorial material, per repo convention). Restored a dropped clause lost in the prior light-review pass: "Our attention has often been called to this principle of temperance, upon which President Smith and the brethren spoke this morning..." -- the witness confirms "upon which President Smith and" before "the brethren spoke this morning," which had been omitted. Corrected clear single-character/spacing OCR errors verbatim against the witness ("tke"->"the", "reverance"->"reverence", "Thjere"->"There", missing spaces after "months,and" and "truth,but", stray period in "the. latter-days"). Left as printed per restraint principle: "would!", "them'", "whom'", and the stray hyphen in "who should - have been impressed" -- these appear as-is in the witness OCR and are ambiguous printer/OCR artifacts with no single unambiguous correction.
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