Philip H. Hurst · 1916 April General Conference · 1916-04-07
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: verified verbatim against conferencereport1916a OCR via reconstructed reading order. Corrected session from 'First Day Morning Session' to 'First Day Afternoon Session' -- the reconstructed order shows George Albert Smith's talk closing the morning, followed by an anthem/benediction/adjournment and the afternoon's own opening hymns, before this talk begins (see the newly-created 1916-04-conference-record-session-notes-12b.md for that recovered gap). Removed a mid-paragraph running-head artifact. Fixed scattered OCR letter-errors throughout (manv/many, T/I, Washing-ton/Washington, Latterday/Latter-day, and similar). No missing/invented text.
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