Joseph F. Smith · 1909 October General Conference · 1909-10-03
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: 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 conferencereport1909sa 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 about fifteen OCR letter errors (f attire -> father, de struction -> destruction, allgiance -> allegiance, ir. -> in, tnat -> that, die/spining -> the/spinning, no many -> so many, bovs -> boys, nor -> not, sa> -> say, a'tnost -> almost, thev -> they, oniy -> only, and stray punctuation). Confirmed boundaries clean: ends with Smith's own Amen.
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