---
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: 10
published: 1911-08
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* 14, no. 10 (August 1911), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14010unse
  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: improvementera14010unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 14, number 10, dated August 1911. Advertising leaves are omitted. Printed editorial pages 855–952 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 1911-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14010unse
  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*, August 1911

*Improvement Era*, vol. 14, no. 10 (August 1911), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- The Prophet and the Patriarch, 855.
- “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself”, 859.
- Lullaby: A Poem, 861.
- The Gadiantons: A Story, 862.
- De Motte Park, 873.
- Duty, 877.
- New Mission President, 882.
- Driftwood: A Story, 883.
- Largest Bear in Captivity, 893.
- A Suggestion, 894.
- New President for the African Mission, 900.
- Word Pictures of the Yellowstone Canyon, 901.
- From Range to Rostrum—I, 904.
- Hark: A Poem, 912.
- We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet: Hymn Set to Music, 913.
- The Martyrs: A Poem, 915.
- Little Problems of Married Life—II, 917.
- From Nauvoo to Salt Lake in the Van of the Pioneers—VI, 925.
- The Commission Form of Government for Cities, 928.
- Editors’ Table—Victory for Temperance, 936.
- Messages from the Missions, 937.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 941.
- Mutual Work, 943.
- Passing Events, 948.