Joseph F. Smith · 1916 April General Conference · 1916-04-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1916a). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from conferencereport1916a's DjVu XML via scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py. Boundaries, speaker, session, and date were already correct from the original ingest. Fixed a genuine column-interleaving OCR bug on leaf 7 (source page 7): the financial-report paragraph beginning 'every action in life...' through '...December 31, 1915:' had been transcribed by reading the two printed columns line-by-line left-then-right ('every action in life, will be a ser- brethren, I do not wish to claim any'), producing two spliced non-sequiturs instead of one paragraph; de-interleaved by reading the left column top-to-bottom then the right column top-to-bottom, which restored a single coherent paragraph ('...a sermon to the unwary...' / '...or more. The report which follows...'). Reflowed the itemized financial report into readable sentences (source is a simple one-column tally list, not a bug, just OCR line-breaks), fixed OCR letter errors ('T do not wish'->'I do not wish', '39<$'->'39%', 'Gol bless'->'God bless', '1,555.000.00'->'1,555,000.00', '600.000.00'->'600,000.00' — comma/period confusion consistent with the surrounding thousands-separated figures), and dropped stray running-artifact fragments ('. . .- f. „', a lone apostrophe) that are OCR misreads of table dot-leaders, not text. No wording invented; every dollar figure and statistic is the OCR's own digits, just rejoined and re-ordered. Confirmed this talk is genuinely complete, opening as the conference's Opening Address and closing 'Amen' before the following soprano solo (correctly a separate item, not part of this file).
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