---
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: 4
number: 4
published: 1901-02
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* 4, no. 4 (February 1901).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0404unse
  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: improvementera0404unse
curator_note: Retains the bibliographic cover, masthead, contents, and a frontispiece placeholder for Governor Charles Durkee. Omits advertising leaves 2–4 before the editorial pagination and leaves 87–93 after it under the Improvement Era advertisement policy; leaf 5 is an Internet Archive digitization notice.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0404unse
  publication_year: 1901
  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 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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<!-- Frontispiece: Governor Charles Durkee. -->

*Improvement Era*. Volume 4, no. 4. February 1901. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Anderson, Edward H., “The Governors of Utah—Harding, Doty and Durkee—IV,” 241.
- Joyce, John A., “Now: A Poem,” 246.
- Reynolds, George, “Infant Baptism and the Sacrament,” 247.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Music,” 252.
- Young, Seymour B., “Physical Evidences of the Divine Mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” 253.
- Anderson, Bertha E., “A Tribute: A Poem,” 259.
- Sorghum, Samuel, “A Shipwrecked Life: A “Mormon” Story,” 261.
- Anderson, Nephi, “Died in the Field: A Poem,” 266.
- Pearson, Sarah E., “Gifts and Giving,” 267.
- Lowell, James Russell, “The Recompense: A Poem,” 269.
- Miller, John T., “The Word of Wisdom,” 270.
- Ballantyne, Richard, “With the Remnants at Nauvoo,” 273.
- Shivell, Paul, “To a Mother: A Poem,” 279.
- Anderson, Nephi, “The Finding of Olga: A Love Story—I,” 280.
- Widtsoe, John A., “The Folly of Astrology,” 289.
- Tanner, J. M., “Some Leading Events in the Current Story of the World,” 296.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editor’s Table: Greeting to the World; What About the Home?; Answers to Questions,” 301.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Notes,” 308.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “In Lighter Mood,” 310.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: Class Methods; How to Conduct Recitations; Do Counselors Go Out of Office with Presidents? ,” 313.
- Hull, Thomas, “Events of the Month,” 317.