Joseph F. Smith · 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 the placeholder title and trailing period on the speaker name, added calling_at_time (President of the Church), and restored the dropped benediction/adjournment lines that close the conference.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed reading order from the conferencereport1911sa DjVu XML and confirmed the source_url leaf (n130). Body collated word-for-word against the OCR; removed a mid-body 'PRESIDENT JOSEPH P. SMITH.' running-head bleed (OCR misread of 'F.') before '...obligates himself by borrowing money and going into debt', and fixed the OCR letter error 'arid' -> 'and' in the same sentence. Restored the closing benediction line ('Benediction was pronounced by Bishop Charles W. Nibley') and 'Conference adjourned for six months,' which the prior ingest had truncated mid-line at leaf 135 (the final leaf of this OCR item). Confirmed boundaries clean: this is the closing address of the conference, ending at the true adjournment; the clerk's stenographer/colophon credits that follow in the source are correctly kept separate in 1911-10-conference-record-session-notes-48.md.
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