---
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: 7
published: 1912-05
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* 15, no. 7 (May 1912), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1507unse
  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: improvementera1507unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 15, number 7, dated May 1912. Advertising leaves are omitted. The unnumbered frontispiece is described by the contents but is not assigned invented pagination. Printed editorial pages 577–668 are transcribed as source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1507unse
  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.
---

# *Improvement Era*, May 1912

*Improvement Era*, vol. 15, no. 7 (May 1912), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

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- The Holy Christian’s Task: A Poem, 577.
- The Man in Scarlet, 579.
- A Peep into the Depths of Mother Earth, 600.
- Rescued: A Poem, 608.
- The International Dry-Farming Congress, 609.
- The “Maine” and Her Dead, 614.
- A Monstrous Beast, 615.
- The Country Life Movement, 619.
- Words Un-Recalled: A Poem, 622.
- The Open Road: Stages III and IV, 623.
- A Moneylogue: A Poem, 632.
- Little Problems of Married Life: IX, 634.
- Joseph Smith’s Teachings, 637.
- How to Conduct a Class Recitation, 638.
- From Nauvoo to Salt Lake in the Van of the Pioneers: XV, 642.
- Editors’ Table: The “Titanic” Disaster, 646.
- To Subscribers of the “Era”, 648.
- Messages from the Missions, 651.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table: Address to the Priesthood, 655.
- Mutual Work: Annual M. I. A. Convention Program, 661.
- Second Annual Athletic Meet and Field Day, 662.
- The Tokyo-American Baseball Team, 663.
- Passing Events, 665.