Samuel O. Bennion · 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, n127) confirmed as correct IA item/era; printed page 126 opens with the running head 'ELDER SAMUEL O. BENNION (President of the Central States Mission.)' matching this file's speaker exactly. Verified against the djvu OCR (conferencereport1919a_djvu.xml, leaves 127-130) that this is a complete, genuine address running from its own opening through its own closing 'Amen.' on leaf 130, with no boundary contamination -- a mid-body running-head bleed ('ELDER THEODORE TOBIASON') on leaf 130 is only a page-header artifact anticipating the next address, not a break in Bennion's own text, so it was removed. Fixed OCR letter errors and stray marks ('testirnpny'->'testimony', 'threeof'->'three of', 'put trading'->'out tracting', stray apostrophes, doubled spacing); left the proper name 'Elder Piatt' as printed in the OCR (likely 'Platt') since it cannot be independently verified from this witness alone. Removed a mid-body running-head bleed ('ELDER SAMUEL 0. BENNION' at leaf 128, and 'ELDER THEODORE TOBIASON' anticipating the next address at leaf 130) that had split sentences across page breaks; both are page-header artifacts, not breaks in Bennion's own text. 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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