David O. McKay · 1909 April General Conference · 1909-04-04
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Ninth Annual Conference (April 1909), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1909a). 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: split out from the end of 1909-04-ivins-literary-defenses.md, where this address had been wrongly appended; anchored source_url leaf; extensive OCR letter-error cleanup.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: this address was split out of 1909-04-ivins-literary-defenses.md, where it had been wrongly appended after Ivins's own Amen (running head 'EIDER DAVID 0. M'KAY.', OCR misread of 'ELDER DAVID O. McKAY.'). Reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1909a DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) to anchor source_url leaf and confirm the split point. Fixed roughly two dozen OCR letter/spacing errors throughout (posessions -> possessions, wfiile -> while, insolation -> inspiration, twelve Hundred such meetings -> twelve hundred such meetings, garbled 'little gathering' phrase restored, fth-day -> 6th day, whp -> who, moraine -> morning, mingling- -> mingling, t1ne -> the, .produce -> produce, murmur ers -> murmurers, mi? takes -> mistakes, sny -> say, suoported -> supported, tbinof -> thing, and several stray punctuation marks). talk_order 18 is shared with the preceding Ivins file, since the two addresses occur back-to-back in the same afternoon session; a full renumbering of the rest of the day was judged out of scope for this pass. Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with McKay's own remarks (the session's synopsis line and speaker header were dropped as session-artifact, consistent with vault convention), ends at his own Amen.
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