Orson F. Whitney · 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.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
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Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 46-52 (page/n46, running head 'ELDER ORSON F. WHITNEY.'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after the Afternoon Session's opening chorus, prayer, and bass solo, quoting the hymn 'The pure testimony poured forth by the Spirit...'; quotes Joseph Smith's First Vision account at length and recounts seership incidents involving Newel K. Whitney; ends '...I know that God knows that I know it; and I cannot and would not deny it for all the world. Amen.', followed by a tenor solo ('Hosannah,' Brother Leslie Hickman) and then Elder David O. McKay's address (whose own running head, badly OCR-garbled as 'ELDEK DAVID 0. M'KAY.', initially looked like it might be a stray page-proof bleed but is in fact the correct start of a distinct address -- confirmed by its content explicitly referring back to 'my beloved brother Whitney' in the third person). De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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