---
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: 8
number: 3
published: 1905-01
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* 8, no. 3 (January 1905).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0803unse
  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: improvementera0803unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 8, number 3, dated January 1905. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 161–240 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0803unse
  publication_year: 1905
  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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, January 1905

The retained masthead identifies this as volume VIII, number 3, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- Individuality of Man, 161
- Hope, the Immortal Daughter of God, 166
- Awakening, 167
- The Supreme Test, 169
- On the Farm, 172
- Peter Klaus: A German Legend, 177
- The Streets of Havana, 187
- Wit and Humor in the Mission Field, 190
- Greeting from the First Presidency, 193
- Topics of the Moment, 194
- Gentile, Jew, or Christian, 205
- Editor’s Table, 206
- Questions and Answers, 215
- Notes, 224
- In Lighter Mood, 228
- Events of the Month, 232