Melvin J. Ballard · 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 is a bare IA item link (bare_ia_source_link); left unanchored, no reliable page evidence available. Corrected speaker/speaker_id from garbled/truncated OCR fragment ('Smith Delivered.') to 'Melvin J. Ballard' -- confirmed by content (continuing his own apostolic testimony) and by the internal running head 'ELDER MELVIN J. BALLARD', which was removed as a mid-body bleed; set a clean supplied title from the body's own text. Note: the immediately preceding file (1919-06-39) cuts off mid-sentence on an unrelated topic (Missouri persecutions) and has been flagged with heavyweight_review_blocker -- there appears to be a genuine content gap between that file and this one (no 1919-06-40 exists), not merely a page-split word-break, so this file's opening ('Why, said he, you must be a lawyer...') is NOT presented as a direct continuation. The closing choir/prayer notice and the Second Day session-opening record are genuine session content, not bleed. Fixed numerous OCR letter errors ('iemarkedthis'->'remarked this', 'companio"f. f^r ha'->'companions, for he', 'whichvhe'->'which he', 'greater-'->'greater', 'livine'->'living', 'keening'->'keeping', 'pavment'->'payment', 'savine'->'saying', 'uoon'->'upon', 'bovs'->'boys', 'sro'->'go', 'soirit ?eain'->'spirit again', 'dav'->'day', a stray bullet glyph, 'Lam'->'I am', and others). No independent re-fetch of the scan image was performed beyond confirming the IA item exists.
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