Joseph F. Smith · 1908 October General Conference · 1908-10-04
Transcribed from the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Ninth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1908), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1908sa). The July 2026 accuracy-audit repair collated the complete address against page images n3-n9 and corrected the remaining OCR residue. Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Accuracy-audit repair: corrected the complete address against the printed page images on leaves n3-n9; this supersedes the earlier light-review and OCR-only claims.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Accuracy-audit repair: word-for-word page-image collation completed against conferencereport1908sa leaves n3-n9. Corrected widespread OCR substitutions, split words, scan-speck punctuation, and anchored source_url to the opening leaf; confirmed the closing boundary before John R. Winder on n9.
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