Charles W. Penrose · 1911 April General Conference · 1911-04-09
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.
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Heavyweight pass: restored the source's own title (the ingest had truncated it), fixed trailing period in speaker name, generic calling_at_time, and corrected date/session (Third Day Afternoon Overflow Meeting, not First Day); anchored source_url leaf.
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Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1911a DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) and anchored the source_url leaf (n88). Restored the source's own title, which had been truncated ('Preliminary remarks. -- Attacks upon the Church. -- Necessity of sustaining its authorities.'); set title_supplied to false since this is the printed title, not an editorial one. Fixed the trailing period on the speaker name and replaced the generic calling_at_time with his actual calling (Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; he was not yet called into the First Presidency at this point in 1911). Corrected date and session from the systematic First Day mislabeling affecting this stretch of the conference (see 1911-04-conference-record-session-notes-27.md for the fuller explanation); this talk opens the Second Overflow Meeting on the Third Day afternoon (Sunday, April 9), presided over by Penrose himself. Content verified clean and complete against the scan; this record ends where Penrose's introductory remarks conclude with the sustaining vote, per the source's own structure (not a truncation).
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