---
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: 14
number: 8
published: 1911-06
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* 14, no. 8 (June 1911), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1408unse
  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: improvementera1408unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 14, number 8, dated June 1911. Advertising leaves are omitted. Printed editorial pages 665–758 are transcribed as source-native records; frontispiece and illustration leaves are retained only where they are editorial matter.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1408unse
  publication_year: 1911
  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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, June 1911

*Improvement Era*, vol. 14, no. 8 (June 1911), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- Higher Criticism and the Book of Mormon—I, 665.
- Whispering from the Dust: A Poem, 678.
- Over the Uintah Railway and Stage to Vernal, 679.
- Fort in a Corner of the Old City Wall: A Sketch, 686.
- Looking Westward Across City Creek Canyon: A Sketch, 687.
- The Bureau of Information, 688.
- Canyon of the San Juan: Photo, 695.
- Some Men Who Have Done Things—XIII: James Dwyer, 695.
- The Book of Mormon Originally Written in Hieroglyphics—II, 703.
- Wait a Minute: A Poem, 710.
- Mr. Roosevelt to the “Mormons”, 712.
- Magazine Slanders Confuted, 719.
- Industry and Optimism, 725.
- “Lest We Forget”, 731.
- Life’s River: A Poem, 734.
- Editors’ Table—Banish Liquor, 735.
- The Evil of Cards, 735.
- Vote, or Ever After Hold Your Peace, 738.
- A Kind Word from a Friend—A Prosperous Community, 738.
- Messages from the Missions, 743.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 749.
- Mutual Work, 751.
- Passing Events, 754.