---
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: 12
published: 1908-10
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. 12 (October 1908): 905–984.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse
  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: improvementera11012unse
start_page: 905
end_page: 984
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–10 and 91–106; editorial folios 905–984 map to source leaves 11–90."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse
  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. 12. October 1908. Organ of the Seventies and the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Talmage, James E., “The Message of Mormonism to the World of Today.”
- Smith, George Albert, “Country Homes.”
- Anderson, Nephi, “Romance of a Missionary—XIII: The Long-Sleeved Envelope and Letters from Home.”
- Davenport, E. Remington, “The Greater Fault: A Poem.”
- Barnes, Claude T., “Some Utah Birds—IV: Bullock’s Oriole.”
- Gowans, E. G., “Suggestions to Parents Concerning the Physical Development of Their Children.”
- Jordan, William George, “Self-Control—V: Worry, the Great American Disease.”
- Curtis, Theo. E., “One of Our Faults: A Poem.”
- Lambourne, Alfred, “The Mill on City Creek.”
- Bennion, Milton, “The Philosophers on Conduct—II: Socrates.”
- Smith, George Albert, “The Church and the School.”
- Young, Levi Edgar, “The World’s Great Religions: Mohammedanism.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Strength for Today: A Poem.”
- Merrill, A. M., “Dancing.”
- Hardy, Rufus K., “Salute No Man by the Way.”
- Smith, Joseph F., “Editor’s Table: A Vital Question.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Close of Volume Eleven and Messages from the Missions.”
- Roberts, B. H., “Seventy’s Council Table.”
- Tanner, Henry S., “Mutual Work: Duties of Stake Superintendents and How to Do Them.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “M. I. A. at Smelter.”
- Anderson, Edward H.; Edwards, L. D., “Home of Our Youth: A Poem with Music.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “Events and Comments.”