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Never before in all my life

Hyrum G. Smith · 1918 April General Conference · 1918-04-05

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport881chur). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.

Witnesses

No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Light review: verified correct April 1918 text, in-context proofread, corrected running heads and high-confidence OCR typos.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: collated the body against the source djvu XML text (conferencereport881chur). Confirmed correct speaker and boundaries. Residual OCR character-level typos may remain pending a dedicated spellcheck pass.

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