David A. Smith · 1926 October General Conference · 1926-10-03
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1926sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed multiple OCR typos and hyphenation artifacts, removed stray running-head bleed mid-body, corrected session/date to First Overflow Meeting, Sunday, October 3, 1926 and calling to First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified; page-by-page collation against scan/OCR witness (archive.org conferencereport1926sa, pages n43-n47). Boundary check: talk begins cleanly after the 'ELDER DAVID A. SMITH / Of the Presiding Bishopric' heading (following the First Overflow Meeting's opening hymns and prayer, which are outside this file) and ends cleanly at 'Amen.' before the next speaker (M. Howard Randall); no adjacent-speaker bleed found. Fixed numerous OCR typos and running-head/page-number bleed (tills->this, jl->I, clays->days, wcrk->work, Fop->For, irorn->from, filt'hy->filthy, l'do not->I do not, partajce->partake, and a mid-paragraph 'ELDER DAVID A. SMITH' running head). One phrase, 'It is jail nonsense to think tobacco hurts a person,' is left as printed in the OCR witness (likely itself a period OCR/typesetting artifact for 'just nonsense', but not verifiable from the OCR text alone, so left verbatim per the no-reconstruction rule). Corrected session to First Overflow Meeting, Sunday, October 3, 1926 (Elder Charles H. Hart presiding, per the source) and calling to First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, Smith's calling at the time.
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