---
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: 9
number: 7
published: 1906-05
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* 9, no. 7 (May 1906), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0907unse
  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: improvementera0907unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 9, number 7, dated May 1906. The scan’s unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; printed editorial pages 505–584 are retained as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0907unse
  publication_year: 1906
  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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, May 1906

The retained masthead identifies this as volume IX, number 7, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- Concerning the Education of Young Men. III: Home Activities, 505
- Harbingers of Spring, 513
- Tribute to Caesar, 515
- His Awakening, 520
- Good, the Final Goal, 527
- The Real Arizona, 528
- Moonlight on Galilee, 533
- Life of St. Paul for the Young. XXII–XXIII, 534
- Translation of the Book of Mormon (Concluded), 544
- The Fruits of Disobedience, 554
- Editor’s Table, 558
- Questions and Answers, 566
- Messages from the Missions, 570
- In Lighter Mood, 574
- Our Work, 575
- Events and Comments, 577