---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 1
number: 12
published: 1898-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 1, no. 12 (October 1898).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera112unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera112unse
curator_note: Retains bibliographic cover, masthead, and contents. Omits advertising leaves before and after the printed editorial pages under the Improvement Era policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera112unse
  publication_year: 1898
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 1, no. 12. October 1898. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Wilford Woodruff, 865.
- Bismarck, 881.
- Comments on the Book of the Revelation of Abraham, 896.
- To Time, 901.
- Religious Faiths, XII: The New Jerusalem Church, 902.
- Young Characters in History, IX: Joseph Smith, 928.
- Editor’s Table: Life Sketch and Engraving of President Wilford Woodruff, 937.
- Editor’s Table: A Tribute from the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations of Zion, 938.
- Editor’s Table: Close of the First Volume, 940.
- Our Work: Important Items from the Late Conference, 941.
- Events of the Month, 943.