Heber J. Grant · 1927 April General Conference · 1927-04-03
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1927a, underlying file conferencereport981chur_djvu.txt). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed. One short statistical passage (missionary count table) is badly garbled in the underlying scan and is marked illegible rather than guessed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the scan/OCR witness (Internet Archive conferencereport1927a); merged in the mis-split continuation that had been filed separately as 1927-04-03 (the two files broke mid-word, 'in-' / 'fluential', with no real talk boundary between them); fixed numerous OCR letter errors and running-head bleed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified against conferencereport1927a djvu OCR (IA file conferencereport981chur_djvu.txt). Confirmed this file and former 1927-04-03 (hebek-j-grant-remarks-3, speaker misspelled 'Hebek' from OCR of the running head 'PRESIDENT HEBEK J. GRANT') are one continuous Heber J. Grant discourse split across a page boundary mid-word; merged the two into this file and deleted the duplicate. Removed running-head bleed ('PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT', 'GENERAL CONFERENCE', 'GEXERAL CONFERENCE') that had been left mid-paragraph at page breaks. Fixed OCR letter errors throughout (e.g. 'Heber ']. Grant' -> 'Heber J. Grant', 'tha*.' -> 'that', 'Yet not cne' -> 'Yet not one', 'Latterday' -> 'Latter-day'). Left one missionary-statistics line marked illegible rather than inventing figures, since the scan's numeric table at that point is not reliably legible. Set date to 1927-04-03 (exact, First Day, per the session-opening record in 1927-04-01) and calling_at_time to 'President of the Church' (Heber J. Grant was Church President at this conference, not a general 'General Authority' placeholder). source_url page anchor is a best-effort estimate derived from OCR line position proportional to the item's 186-leaf image count; not verified against the IA page-image viewer directly.
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