Hugh B. Brown · 1959 October General Conference · 1959-10-11
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 conferencereport1959sa 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 conferencereport1959sa (129th Semi-Annual Conference, held Oct 9-11, 1959; 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 9 = First Day, Saturday Oct 10 = Second Day plus the Saturday-evening General Priesthood Meeting, Sunday Oct 11 = 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 n106 of conferencereport1959sa) in place of the bare item link. Corrected speaker attribution: the printed report's running head reads 'ELDER HUGH B. BROWN / Of the Council of the Twelve' (split across two OCR-garbled lines as 'ELDER HUC' / 'I B. BROWN e Twelve Apostles'); the original ingest mistook this for a speaker literally named 'Huc'. Corrected speaker/speaker_id/title/id/filename to Hugh B. Brown and removed the mid-paragraph running-head bleed fragment ('I B. BROWN e Twelve Apostles') that had been stitched into the body's first paragraph.
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