German E. Ellsworth · 1912 April General Conference · 1912-04-07
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, and line-break hyphenation removed; paragraphs reflowed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Full re-ingest from the correct source.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 89-93 (page/n89, running head 'ELDER GERMAN E. ELLSWORTH.'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after the Second Overflow Meeting's opening hymn, prayer, and anthem, with '(President of Northern States Mission.) Our beloved President Joseph F. Smith, said, in the beginning of this Conference...'; discusses the spirit of revelation, the Reformation, the founding of the United States, and the Book of Mormon's distribution (over 175,000 copies) as a witness of Christ; ends '...the work of our Heavenly Father for the salvation of the souls of men, is my prayer, in the name of Jesus. Amen.', immediately before Elder William McLachlan's address. A stray 'ELDER WILLIAM McLACHLAN.' running head, appearing as its own paragraph mid-body at a leaf transition, was excluded as a page-proof artifact -- confirmed (per the recurring pattern this conference) by extending the range until the sentence actually completed. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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