---
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: 15
number: 5
published: 1912-03
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* 15, no. 5 (March 1912): 389–480.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1505unse
  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: improvementera1505unse
start_page: 389
end_page: 480
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted. Source-native editorial items are transcribed using printed pagination.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1505unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, volume 15, no. 5 (March 1912), published in Salt Lake City by the General Board.

## Editorial contents

- The Higher Law in Politics — 389.
- M. I. A. Scouts — 404.
- The Beginnings of Human History — 412.
- Letter to a Missionary — 419.
- “Mormonism” in South Africa — 423.
- Health Topics — 424.
- Little Problems of Married Life VII — 429.
- Need of Religious Training in Childhood — 437.
- Is There Marrying and Giving in Marriage in Heaven? — 441.
- To a Missionary — 445.
- The Open Road. Adventures XI. and XII. — 446.
- From Nauvoo to Salt Lake XIII — 457.
- Elders of the Newcastle Conference — 461.
- The Cigarette — 462.
- Tribute to Mary Freeze — 464.
- Editor’s Table: Pre-existent States — 467.
- Testimony — 468.
- Heaven and Hell — 469.
- Get Busy — 471.
- Inspiring Hymns — 472.
- Messages from the Missions — 474.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table — 479.
- Passing Events — 480.