Rulon S. Wells · 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: split a separate Charles H. Hart address out of the end of this file (see heavyweight_review_notes); corrected date metadata (Third Day was Oct 6, not Oct 5); 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 (systematic Third Day date error present across this session's files). Fixed several OCR letter errors (i -> I, to. -> to, transgresion -> transgression, ha,s -> has, lawsr -> laws?, controling -> controlling, and a couple stray symbols). Split out a separate address by Charles H. Hart ('The Divinely Inspired Constitution and Duties of Citizenship') that had been wrongly appended to the end of this file (running head 'EIDER CHARLES H. HART.', OCR misread of 'ELDER') into new file 1909-10-hart-constitution-and-citizenship.md -- talk_order 26 (shared with this file, since they occur back-to-back in the same afternoon session). Confirmed remaining boundaries clean: begins with Wells's own remarks, ends at his own Amen.
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