---
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: 12
number: 5
published: 1909-03
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* 12, no. 5 (March 1909): 329–408.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1205unse
  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: improvementera1205unse
start_page: 329
end_page: 408
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Unnumbered advertising and subscription leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–4 and leaves 85–86; editorial folios 329–408 map to source leaves 5–84."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1205unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 12, no. 5. March 1909. Organ of the Priesthood Quorums and the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; published at Salt Lake City by the General Board.

## Contents

- Thorup, Joseph F., “Book of Mormon in Greek.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Group of Eskimos.”
- Nibley, Preston, “Lincoln and the Latter-day Saints.”
- Goff, Harold, “Nearing the Goal.”
- Cannon, Elizabeth R., “Porfirio Diaz, the Grand Old Man of Mexico.”
- Kleinman, Bertha A., “Where All May Climb.”
- Barnes, Claude T., “Some Utah Birds—The Red-Shafted Flicker.”
- Frost, Grace Ingles, “Pebbles.”
- Parry, Edwin F., “Herbert Melbourne—V.”
- Smith, E. Wesley, “Visit to and Legend of the Volcano Kilauea.”
- Hyde, W. A., “Life Indeed.”
- Bennion, Milton, “To the Young Man on the Farm.”
- Curtis, Theo. E., “Cumorah.”
- Jordan, William George, “Self-Control—X: The Majesty of Calmness.”
- Fox, Ruth May, “Victory.”
- Hickman, J. E., “The Tragedy and Triumph of Youth—V: Insincerity of the Intellect the Curse of the Age.”
- Reeve, John W., “The Church School Farm in New Zealand.”
- Murdoch, David L., “An Emblem for the Seventies.”
- Gardner, Hamilton, “Washington in Hungary.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Florida–Republic Collision.”
- Smith, Joseph F., “Editor's Table: Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Comforter.”
- Widtsoe, John A., “Ether, Holy Spirit, and Holy Ghost.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Priesthood Quorums' Table.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work: Library and Reading Room; How to Interest Members.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “Events and Comments.”