---
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: 16
number: 1
published: 1912-11
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* 16, no. 1 (November 1912): 3–90.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1601unse
  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: improvementera1601unse
start_page: 3
end_page: 90
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 16, number 1, dated November 1912. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted; editorial folios 3–90 are transcribed from the Internet Archive scan.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1601unse
  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*, vol. 16, no. 1 (November 1912), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- Present Need of Temples, 3.
- A Difference of Opinion. A Poem, 23.
- Spring on the Pacific Coast, 24.
- Song of the Chopper. Illustrated Poem, 33.
- The Open Road. XIV, 34.
- In Sunny Africa. II, 44.
- Little Problems of Married Life. XV, 52.
- Thanksgiving. A Poem, 57.
- Voice of the Intangible. IV, 58.
- Department of Vocation and Industry. III, 65.
- Editor’s Table: The Mexican Colonists Released, 69.
- “What Is to Become of Such as Me?”, 70.
- “The House of the Lord”, 72.
- The Acceptable Fast, 73.
- Notice to Bishops, 74.
- Messages from the Missions, 75.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 77.
- Church Schools Department: Divinity in the Latter-day Work, 84.
- Founder’s Day at the B. Y. U., 84.
- Passing Events, 86.