Theodore Tobiason · 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: anchored source_url to archive.org conferencereport1919a n130 (printed page 129, where the OCR running head 'ELDER THEODORE TOBIASON' introduces this address). Verified speaker against the OCR running heads on leaves 130-132. Fixed OCR letter errors and stray marks (a stray question-mark-like glyph before 'never in the world', 'knpw'->'know', spacing artifacts). Boundary correction: this file previously ended mid-address at '...order our lives accordingly.' The talk's actual closing paragraph and Amen ('May the Lord bless us, and help us all to be true and faithful...Amen.') had been mis-split into a separate file (former 1919-06-78) under the running head 'ELDER REY L. PRATT', which appears at the top of leaf 132/printed page 131 because that running head reflects the page's dominant content (Pratt's address, which begins later on the same page), not the two leftover sentences carried over from the previous page that actually finish Tobiason's remarks -- confirmed via the djvu OCR (conferencereport1919a_djvu.xml, leaves 130-132) that Tobiason's talk has no 'Amen' without this paragraph and that Pratt's own address (1919-06-79) begins immediately after with its own distinct opening, 'I sincerely trust, my brethren and sisters...' Restored the closing paragraph verbatim from the OCR and merged it here rather than leaving a genuine sentence fragmented across two files under two different speaker names; deleted the former 1919-06-78 file and left a gap at talk_order 78, consistent with existing gaps elsewhere in this conference's numbering from prior split/merge corrections. 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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