Orson F. Whitney · 1911 April General Conference · 1911-04-07
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1911a). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight pass: restored a missing opening paragraph; corrected truncated title, trailing period in speaker name, generic calling_at_time, and session; anchored source_url leaf; OCR letter errors fixed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1911a DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). Restored an entire missing opening paragraph (about the common preacher's custom of claiming to have nothing on their mind, which sets up Whitney's opening line 'I cannot say that I have nothing upon my mind' as a direct response) that had been dropped from the original ingest. Corrected the session from 'First Day Morning Session' to 'First Day Afternoon Session' (this talk immediately follows the afternoon session's opening telegram-reading and hymn record) and anchored source_url to leaf 45. Fixed the truncated title, removed a stray trailing period from the speaker name, and set the actual calling_at_time. Removed a mid-sentence running-head bleed ('BISHOP CHARLES W. NIBLEY.' interrupting 'If science and religion'). Fixed several OCR letter errors (Latterday -> Latter-day, Hyoocritical -> Hypocritical, hh -> his, fiuman -> human, plinciples -> principles, and a couple stray symbols). Confirmed remaining boundaries clean: ends at Whitney's own Amen. Also corrected date and session, which had been systematically mislabeled First Day (1911-04-06) across roughly twenty 1911-04 files; the DjVu day headers (FIRST DAY at leaf 1, SECOND DAY at leaf 30, THIRD DAY at leaf 61) were used to reassign the correct day/session per file via its source_url leaf.
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