---
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: 10
published: 1906-08
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. 10 (August 1906), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0910unse
  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: improvementera0910unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 9, number 10, dated August 1906. The scan’s unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; printed editorial pages 745–832 are retained as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0910unse
  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*, August 1906

The retained masthead identifies this as volume IX, number 10, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- What Life Means to Me, 745
- Laughter Aids Digestion, 752
- Umentucken—Lamb of the Mountain, 753
- The God of Gold, 757
- Prophetic Value of Section Two. II, 758
- Ecce Homo, 767
- Why Keep the Word of Wisdom?, 768
- Why You Fail, 771
- The Man Who Does Things, 772
- Life of St. Paul for the Young. XXX–XXXI, 775
- When the Old Man Has Nothin’ to Say, 784
- Jesse N. Smith—A Eulogy, 785
- Hope On and Weary Not, 788
- Concerning the Education of Young Men. VI: Selecting an Occupation, 789
- Voyage of Ship “Brooklyn.” I, 794
- Observations on Religious Conditions in Great Britain, 799
- The River, 802
- Testimony, 803
- A Story of Death Valley, 811
- Editor’s Table, 812
- Messages from the Missions, 815
- In Lighter Mood, 819
- Our Work, 820
- Events and Comments, 825