---
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: 8
published: 1912-06
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* 15, no. 8 (June 1912), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1508unse
  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: improvementera1508unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 15, number 8, dated June 1912. Advertising leaves are omitted. The unnumbered frontispiece is described by the contents but is not assigned invented pagination. The supplied scan skips printed pp. 682–683; their contents are not fabricated. The remaining printed editorial pages 669–760 are transcribed as source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1508unse
  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*, June 1912

*Improvement Era*, vol. 15, no. 8 (June 1912), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

<!-- Unnumbered frontispiece: Cliff-Dwelling Canyon del Muerte. -->

- The Cliff-Dwellers, 669.
- Criticism, and Spiritual and Temporal Condition of the Church, 671.
- Little Problems of Married Life: X, 683.
- To the Mummy of the Cliff-Dweller: A Poem, 688.
- Back to the Home, 690.
- Arizona, Bright Star: A Poem, 695.
- Reminiscences of the Salt Lake Theatre, 696.
- “Mormon” Sunday Schools, 703.
- The Inspiration of Cheer: A Poem, 706.
- Scenes in Denmark, 707.
- Cuernavaca, the Oriental City of the Western Hemisphere, 710.
- Memorial: A Poem, 714.
- The Open Road: Stages V and VI, 715.
- In Memory of the “Titanic” Victims: A Poem, 725.
- When Great Sorrows Are Our Portion, 726.
- Just Two Little Shoes: A Poem, 731.
- Portrait of Hiram B. Clawson, Utah Pioneer, 732.
- Pioneer Incidents, 733.
- Editor’s Table: Old Forms vs. New, 736.
- What Determined Brigham Young to Settle in Salt Lake Valley?, 738.
- “Lest We Forget”, 740.
- An Appeal with a Promise, 742.
- Messages from the Missions, 742.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table: The Last Testimony of Hamilton G. Park, 750.
- Lesson V: How to Question a Class, 752.
- Mutual Work: Saved the Child’s Life, 753.
- Summer Work, 753.
- M. I. A. Scouts, 754.
- Music and Oratory, 755.
- Pioneer Trail, 755.
- Annual M. I. A. Conference, 755.
- Passing Events, 756.