Joseph W. McMurrin · 1919 June General Conference · 1919-06-02
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, n116) confirmed as correct IA item/era against conferencereport1919a_page_numbers.json (printed page 115 -> leaf 116). The placeholder speaker 'Of The California' was a garbled fragment of the OCR running head; checked the OCR directly (conferencereport1919a_djvu.txt line ~11703-11708) and found the full heading reads 'ELDER JOSEPH W. McMURRIN (Of the Council of Seventy, and President of the California Mission.)' -- corrected speaker/speaker_id/calling_at_time accordingly. This is McMurrin's address as the newly called successor to Joseph E. Robinson (1919-06-62) as California mission president, confirmed by internal references ('the release of President Robinson... it will be quite a difficult matter for some of the people of the California mission to accept the new president'). Removed the leftover running-head fragment ('Mission.) «') that had been left as the opening line of the body; the true body opens with 'I have had some reminiscent thoughts...'. Fixed OCR errors ('Latterday'->'Latter-day' in two places, 'peroid'->'period', a stray smart-quote before 'mankind', 'reasonble'->'reasonable', a stray asterisk after 'most'). Removed a mid-body running-head bleed ('ELDER NEPHI JENSEN', which belongs to a later page/talk, not this one). Confirmed no other boundary contamination; the talk opens and closes cleanly with 'Amen.'. No independent re-fetch of the scan image was performed beyond confirming the IA item exists and pulling its djvu OCR text.
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