Joseph F. Smith · 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: restored missing conference-opening session record; anchored source_url leaf; OCR letter errors fixed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1909a DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). Restored the entire missing conference-opening session record (list of General Authorities present, call to order, choir hymns, opening prayer) at leaf 1, which had been dropped entirely from the original ingest. Anchored source_url to leaf 1. Fixed roughly two dozen OCR letter errors (exany>le -> example, togethei -> together, prevade -> pervade, thev/Manv -> they/Many, sjood -> good, latter-dav -> latter-day, wantine -> wanting, mieht -> might, worldlv thinp-s -> worldly things, Omni" potent -> Omnipotent, ar rayed -> arrayed, and several stray/misplaced punctuation marks). Confirmed boundaries clean: ends with Smith's own Amen followed by the genuine musical-number notice, which was left in place as part of the session record.
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