---
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: 3
published: 1913-01
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. 3 (January 1913): 185–278.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1603unse
  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: improvementera1603unse
start_page: 185
end_page: 278
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Advertisements and unnumbered subscription leaves are intentionally omitted. Printed editorial folios were mapped against the scan images before transcription; unnumbered illustration/front-matter leaves are not assigned fabricated page markers.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1603unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 16, no. 3. January 1913. Organ of the Priesthood Quorums, the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, and the schools of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; published monthly by the General Board at Salt Lake City, Utah.

## Contents

- Roberts, B. H., “Sphere of Y. M. M. I. A. Activity.”
- Kimball, Solomon F., “The Hero of Linister.”
- Stewart, Robert, “Some Developments in Modern Chemistry. II.”
- Lyman, Albert R., “Voice of the Intangible VI.”
- Jones, Florence L., “Milton's Country and Gray's.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Utah's Sons the State's Great Pride.”
- Anderson, James H., “Liberty of the Press II.”
- Beeley, Arthur L., “Insanity.”
- Iverson, Minnie, “Lines.”
- Gardner, Hamilton, “The Balkan War.”
- Haddock, Lon J., “Christmastide. A Poem.”
- Hintze, Ferdinand F., “Testimony Derived from the Balkan War.”
- Edmonds, Clyde Candland, “What Have You Done. A Poem.”
- Freund, Charles J., “The Jewish Farm Colony at Clarion II.”
- Roberts, B. H., “Department of Vocation and Industry.”
- Grant, Heber J., “Editor's Table: The Slaying of Gunnison; Sunday Baseball.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Priesthood Quorums' Table: Courses of Study for the Priesthood Quorums, 1913.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work: Suggestions to Ward Scout Leaders for Organizing the M. I. A. Scout Work.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events.”