---
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: 3
number: 1
published: 1899-11
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* 3, no. 1 (November 1899).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera31unse
  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: improvementera31unse
curator_note: Retains bibliographic cover, masthead, and contents. Omits advertising leaves 2–6 before the editorial pagination and leaves 87–100 after it; advertisements are omitted under the Improvement Era policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera31unse
  publication_year: 1899
  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 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 3, no. 1. November 1899. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Tanner, J. M., “The Zionist Movement,” 1.
- Naisbitt, H. W., “A Reverie, a Poem,” 9.
- Jaques, John, “First Mission to the Lamanites,” 10.
- Anonymous, “Be, Therefore, Loving, a Poem,” 22.
- Maeser, Karl G., “How I Became a “Mormon”,” 23.
- Anonymous, “Don’t Send My Boy Where Your Girl Can’t Go, a Poem,” 26.
- Anderson, Nephi, “The Returned Elder,” 27.
- Robinson, Ezra C., “Acts of Special Providence in Missionary Experience: Evil Spirits Rebuked; The Gift of Tongues and Prophecy,” 30.
- Orton, Joseph, “Acts of Special Providence in Missionary Experience: The Spirit of Prophecy; An Elder’s Influence,” 32.
- Jensen, Junius C., “Acts of Special Providence in Missionary Experience: Two Cases of Healing,” 33.
- Anonymous, ““Yankee Doodle”,” 34.
- Wootton, A., “Little Things,” 35.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The British and the Boers,” 37.
- Young, Lee Edgar, “Joseph Smith from a Philosophic Point of View,” 38.
- Lee, W. O., “The Inhabitants of Samoa, Their Social Life and Customs,” 44.
- Talmage, James E., “Liquefied Air, and Some of the Extravagant Claims Made for It,” 53.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editor’s Table: The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon; Collection of Anecdotes; The Paris Congress of the History of Religions,” 61.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “In Lighter Mood,” 71.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: The Era as a Text-Book,” 72.
- Hull, Thomas, “Events of the Month,” 79.