Melvin J. Ballard · 1916 October General Conference · 1916-10-08
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Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against conferencereport1916sa's reconstructed reading order. Boundaries and content confirmed correct and complete. Moved the speaker's calling (printed as a parenthetical, not a real title) to calling_at_time and supplied a real title from the talk's own opening line. Removed two running-head bleeds left mid-sentence in the body ('ELDER MELVINJ. BALLARD' appearing twice, splitting 'told the Prophet' / 'Joseph Smith' and 'The greatest, the' / 'grandest part'). Fixed OCR letter errors: 'the.unsinkable'->'the unsinkable', 'mealstrom'->'maelstrom', "America'ns"->'Americans', 'forsret'->'forget' (twice), 'hetter'->n/a (not in this file). Date/session corrected in an earlier pass of this claim.
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