---
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: 11
number: 11
published: 1908-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Cover, Masthead, and Contents," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 11 (September 1908): 825–904.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11011unse
  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: improvementera11011unse
start_page: 825
end_page: 904
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–4 and 85–96; editorial folios 825–904 map to source leaves 5–84."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11011unse
  publication_year: 1908
  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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 11, no. 11. September 1908. Organ of the Seventies and the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Widtsoe, John A., “The Need and Kind of Education.”
- Smith, George Albert, “Redeeming the Waste Places.”
- Kimball, Solomon F., “Our Pioneer Boys—III.”
- Jordan, William George, “Self-Control—IV: The Supreme Charity of the World.”
- Gates, B. Cecil, “Foundation Stones of Faith.”
- Larsen, Louis, “Your Past: A Poem.”
- Thorup, Joseph F., “The Latter-Day Saints in Modern Athens.”
- Anderson, Nephi, “Romance of a Missionary—XI: Individuals and Individuality.”
- Frost, Grace Ingles, “Press On: A Poem.”
- Badger, Ralph A., “The Kidron Valley and Gethsemane.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Portrait of Bishop William B. Preston.”
- Evans, John H., “Her Place Is Empty.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Governors’ Congress.”
- Hogenson, J. C., “Put Energy Into Your Work.”
- Kirby, George D., “What Effect Does My Environment Have Upon My Neighbor?.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editor’s Table: A Hint on Mutual Helpfulness.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions.”
- Roberts, B. H., “Seventy’s Council Table.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “Events and Comments.”