Anthony W. Ivins · 1909 October General Conference · 1909-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Eightieth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1909), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1909sa). 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: corrected date metadata (Third Day was Wednesday Oct 6, not Oct 5 -- the conference ran Oct 3, 4, and 6, skipping Oct 5); restored a scripture quotation from D&C 59:9-12; OCR letter errors fixed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1909sa DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). Corrected the date field from 1909-10-05 to 1909-10-06 -- the file's own session header reads 'THIRD DAY. Wednesday, Oct. 6th,' confirming this systematic error (the conference met Oct 3, 4, and 6, 1909; there was no session on Oct 5). Restored a heavily garbled scripture quotation to match the canonized text of Doctrine and Covenants 59:9-12, which Ivins is directly quoting at this point (the OCR had scrambled several words into fragments). Fixed several other OCR letter errors (feHow -> fellow, Got1 -> God, crit ically -> critically, ind -> and, c* -> of, laiv -> law). Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with the genuine session-opening record for the Third Day (call to order, hymns, prayer), which belongs with this talk; ends at Ivins's own Amen.
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