---
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: 10
published: 1912-08
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* 15, no. 10 (August 1912), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera15010unse
  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: improvementera15010unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 15, number 10, dated August 1912. Advertising leaves are omitted. The unnumbered frontispiece is described by the contents but is not assigned invented pagination. Printed editorial pages 869–960 are transcribed as source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera15010unse
  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*, August 1912

*Improvement Era*, vol. 15, no. 10 (August 1912), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

<!-- Unnumbered frontispiece: elders of the West Pennsylvania Conference, Eastern States Mission. -->

- How the Elders Should Live at Home and Abroad, 869.
- The Place of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations in the Church, 871.
- In Sunny Africa, 880.
- An Intimate View of the “Mormons”, 890.
- Custom, 898.
- A New Mission Field, 899.
- Questionable Goodness, 900.
- The Use of Nicotine, 901.
- On Cheerful Giving, 905.
- Little Problems of Married Life: XIII, 906.
- Conjoint Session of the Seventeenth Annual M. I. A. Conference: Purpose and Method of Preliminary Programs, 910.
- A Remarkable Deliverance: A Retold Story, 913.
- Safety in Prayer, 915.
- Remarks, 916.
- Physical Development, 919.
- Intellectual Development, 921.
- Would You Win or Lose?, 922.
- The Open Road: IX and X, 923.
- Over the Pioneer Trail, 933.
- Editors’ Table: Who and What Are the Angels, 949.
- Messages from the Missions, 952.
- Mutual Work: Department of Vocations and Industries: I, 954.
- Passing Events, 957.