---
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: 8
published: 1901-06
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. 8 (June 1901).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0408unse
  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: improvementera0408unse
curator_note: Retains bibliographic cover, masthead, frontispiece notice, and contents. Omits advertising leaves 1–6 before the editorial pagination and leaves 89–94 after it; advertisements are omitted under the Improvement Era policy. Editorial pagination is source printed pages 561–640, on scan leaves 9–88.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0408unse
  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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*Improvement Era*. Volume 4, no. 8. June 1901. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Governors of Utah, George W. Emery,” 561.
- Widtsoe, John A., “The Chemistry of Digestion,” 564.
- Cluff, W. W., “An Incident in the Life of President Brigham Young,” 572.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Learning to Let Go: Selection,” 574.
- Valentine, Sophy, “How a Shiftless Boy Was Started,” 575.
- Selected, “Scatter Sunshine,” 582.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Letters from Missionaries,” 583.
- Hale, Edward Everett, “The Nameless Saints: A Poem,” 589.
- Jensen, J. C., “Authority and Records Go Hand in Hand,” 591.
- Sangster, Margaret E., “It Isn’t the Thing You Do: A Poem,” 601.
- Sundwall, John, “Some Opportunities for the Young Men of Utah,” 602.
- Talmage, James E., “The Story of “Mormonism”—I,” 608.
- Alder, Lydia D., “Warwick and Kenilworth,” 615.
- Tanner, J. M., “Some Leading Events in the Current Story of the World,” 619.
- Selected, “True Nobility: A Poem,” 623.
- Whitney, Orson F., “Editor’s Table: Brigham Young and His Century; It Was Not a Failure,” 624.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Notes,” 631.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: A Call for Missionaries; A Laudable Labor; Questions for Officers; From California; Philadelphia M. I. A.; In the Hawaiian Islands; The Work in London,” 632.
- Hull, Thomas, “Events of the Month,” 636.