David O. McKay · 1956 April General Conference · 1956-04-06
Transcribed from the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth Annual (April 1956) General Conference, digitized by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (item conferencereport1956a), pp. 4-9. Reading order rebuilt from the item's DjVu OCR word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). Never previously ingested into the vault; flagged missing by the 2026 heavyweight review of this conference and ingested in this pass. This is President McKay's opening address of the conference, immediately preceding Bishop Wirthlin's address; title is supplied from his own description of the address, "some helpful hints for happy homes." Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs; printed editorial side-heads preserved as Markdown headings; corrected isolated OCR character errors (e.g. the drop-cap-garbled "jVEXT" to "Next" and "•Jhe" to "The") without altering wording.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread against the heavyweight collation already on file; no additional wording changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingested from the conferencereport1956a DjVu XML reading order (leaf 4-9) to fill a gap flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1956-04.md), which found President McKay's addresses never ingested. Collated directly against the reconstructed page text; verbatim from opening to closing 'Amen' with only mechanical OCR/hyphenation cleanup and restoration of the printed side-heads, no paraphrase.
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