Thomas E. McKay · 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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Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 41-45 (page/n41, running head 'ELDER THOMAS E. McKAY.', OCR variant 'M'KAY'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after Elder George F. Richards's address with 'Never before, my brethren and sisters, have I felt so keenly the necessity of the Spirit of the Lord...'; reports on missionary conditions in Germany, Hungary, and France; ends '...God bless our missionaries...God bless you all. Amen.', followed by a brief interjecting testimony from President Joseph F. Smith, an anthem, a telegram from John W. Young, benediction, and adjournment of the Morning Session -- and, past that, a stray 'ELDER ORSON F. WHITNEY.' running head bleeds onto a later leaf while McKay's own text is still concluding underneath it (a page-proof artifact; excluded, confirmed by reading past it to the true session-record and Whitney synopsis). Two further stray running-head bleeds mid-body (both 'ELDER THOMAS E. McKAY.') were excluded the same way. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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