Alma Sonne · 1956 October General Conference · 1956-10-07
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1956sa scan/OCR; confirmed body text, fixed date/session metadata.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified source as the Church History Library-contributed Internet Archive scan conferencereport1956sa (127th Semi-Annual Conference, held Oct 5-7, 1956; IA metadata confirms CHL call no. M204.1 A1 1880, 1897-). Rebuilt page reading order from the scan's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) to safely resolve talk boundaries against the report's own session headers (FIRST/SECOND/THIRD DAY, MORNING/AFTERNOON MEETING, GENERAL PRIESTHOOD MEETING) and speaker headers. Confirmed session and exact date from the report's own dateline (Friday Oct 5 = First Day, Saturday Oct 6 = Second Day plus the Saturday-evening General Priesthood Meeting, Sunday Oct 7 = Third Day); corrected date_precision from month to exact and added the session field (both were previously unset). Added a page-anchored source_url (leaf n127 of conferencereport1956sa) in place of the bare item link. Corrected speaker attribution: the printed report's running head reads 'ELDER ALMA SONNE / Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles' but was garbled by a two-column OCR interleaving defect into 'ELDER ALI' / '1A SONNE' / 'of the Twelve Apostles', which the original ingest mistook for a speaker literally named 'Ali'. Corrected speaker/speaker_id/title/id/filename to Alma Sonne and restored the real printed title, 'Faith, the Bedrock of Life,' quoted in the announcer's introduction on the same page. This is the Church of the Air broadcast, printed after the conference's formal adjournment.
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