Hyrum M. Smith · 1912 April General Conference · 1912-04-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report (82nd Annual Conference), published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive as conferencereport1912a (internal scan file conferencereport821chur). Running heads, page numbers, printed synopsis, and line-break hyphenation removed; paragraphs reflowed.
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Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 30-38 (page/n30, running head 'ELDER HYRUM M. SMITH.', with one OCR-misread instance of the byline as 'HYRTJM'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after the Second Day's opening hymn, prayer, and anthem, with 'I am very desirous my brethren and sisters, of enjoying that good spirit...'; discusses the Utah Products Exhibit and home industries, then Word of Wisdom statistics from Brother Wm. W. Riter's Auditing Committee report and Presiding Bishop Nibley; ends '...to the building up and promoting of all the glorious interests of Zion, is my prayer in the name of Jesus. Amen.', immediately before Elder George F. Richards's address (a stray 'ELDER GEORGE F. RICHARDS.' running head, OCR-garbled as 'LiLDER', bleeds onto the second-to-last leaf while Smith's own text is still concluding underneath it -- a page-proof artifact, excluded from the body). De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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