John Wells · 1919 June General Conference · 1919-06-01
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1919a). 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: source_url (archive.org conferencereport1919a, n66) confirmed as correct IA item/era. No boundary contamination found; this is John Wells's tribute to Joseph F. Smith, drawn from his personal experience as an employee of the Presiding Bishop's Office. Fixed a large number of OCR letter errors ('foi'->'for', 'ioi'->'for', a doubled period, 'mt'->'me', 'establishea'->'established', 'It *3'->'It is', 'lto'->'to', 'ano'->'and', '1 called'->'I called', 'Presv dent'->'President', a stray comma, 'tilt,'->'the', "clay's"->"day's", 'Pie'->'He', a stray period, 'nevei'->'never', 'trie'->'the', 'likt'->'like', 'thi.s'->'this', a stray space before comma). No independent re-fetch of the scan image was performed beyond confirming the IA item exists.
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