Seymour B. Young · 1911 October General Conference · 1911-10-08
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 date (1911-10-07 -> 1911-10-08) and session (was labeled Second Day Morning Session; this is part of the Closing Session, immediately after Joseph F. Smith, Jr.'s talk 44), corrected the placeholder title, and added the source_url page anchor.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed reading order from the conferencereport1911sa DjVu XML and confirmed the source_url leaf (n123), which opens with 'PRESIDENT SEYMOUR B. YOUNG (Of First Council of Seventy.)' immediately after the choir's rendition of 'Hosannah' that closed Smith's talk. Body collated word-for-word against the OCR; removed a mid-body 'PATRIARCH JOHN SMITH.' running-head bleed (John Smith presided as Patriarch but this page break falls mid-quotation within Young's own remarks, not at a speaker change) before 'Let the hearts of your brethren rejoice...'. Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with Young's own remarks and ends at his own closing blessing, before John Smith's talk begins.
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