Reed Smoot · 1915 October General Conference · 1915-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1915sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the OCR of conferencereport1915sa (leaves 131-133); removed the AUTHORITIES SUSTAINED conference-record material that had been wrongly appended after this talk's true ending (that record is preserved separately); this talk had unusually heavy OCR corruption throughout and required extensive reconstruction.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: source verified against conferencereport1915sa OCR. Reading order reconstructed with scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py; boundaries confirmed (final individual talk of the conference, immediately preceding the sustaining of Church officers). THIRD INSTANCE OF THE SAME CONTAMINATION PATTERN in this conference: the original ingest had appended the entire AUTHORITIES SUSTAINED record (the long roll of General Authorities and auxiliary officers, spanning leaves 133-136) onto the end of Smoot's talk after his true "Amen." Trimmed the file back to its true ending; the sustaining record is preserved separately (see 1915-10-64-of-the-church-remarks-64.md, which should likely be reclassified as record_type: conference_record given its garbled "Of The Church" speaker field -- flagged for the next pass). Body collated against OCR leaves 131-133; this page range was heavily OCR-corrupted and reconstructed word-by-word from context and grammar.
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