George Albert Smith · 1909 October General Conference · 1909-10-04
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 a truncated session-opening line; 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) to anchor source_url leaf. Restored a truncated session-opening line -- the file previously began 'Conference was resumed at 2 p. m.\n\nthe meeting to order.', missing the 'AFTERNOON SESSION.' heading and 'President Joseph F. Smith called' before 'the meeting to order.' Fixed several OCR letter errors (Pronhet -> Prophet, gratful -> grateful, he -> be, oursevles -> ourselves, bur -> our [in the hymn quotation]). Confirmed remaining boundaries clean: ends at Smith's own Amen.
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