Reed Smoot · 1911 October General Conference · 1911-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1911sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight pass: corrected truncated title, trailing period on speaker name, and generic calling_at_time; reordered two short two-column-layout OCR scrambles and fixed OCR letter errors.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1911sa DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) and confirmed the source_url leaf (n26) is correct. Rewrote the truncated title, removed the stray trailing period on the speaker name, and replaced the generic calling_at_time. Reordered two short passages scrambled by a two-column-layout OCR defect (verified all words present in the scan, only reordered): one near 'if I should violate the law of chastity, I would leave the "Mormon" Church, or I would humble myself and seek God's forgiveness,' and one near 'wherever you give advice, encourage the people to take care of all the bounties that God is bestowing upon them.' Fixed several OCR letter errors (saVed -> saved, prejudicies -> prejudices, lias -> has, article* -> articles, Latterday -> Latter-day, neces sary -> necessary, a stray hyphen before 'of immorality', has*given -> has given). Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with Smoot's own remarks, ends at his own Amen.
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