---
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: 9
published: 1913-07
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* 16, no. 9 (July 1913), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse
  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: improvementera1609unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and editorial contents retained. Advertising leaves are omitted. Pagination follows only printed folios visible in the source; unnumbered editorial plates are kept as separate unpaginated records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse
  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.
---

# *Improvement Era*, July 1913

*Improvement Era*, vol. 16, no. 9 (July 1913).

## Editorial contents

- The National Education Association: Its History, Work and Mission.
- The American Buffalo.
- A Story of Pioneer Days.
- Customs and Legends of Utah Indians: IV—The Walker and Black-Hawk Wars.
- Poem.
- The Artist vs. the Poet.
- Education in Utah.
- Evolution of Education in Utah.
- Looking Down the River at the Narrows in Ogden Canyon.
- The Utah Public School System.
- Organization and Government of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- One of the Mountain Lakes in the Cottonwoods.
- The Church Schools.
- The “Mormon” Finance System.
- Educational Value of the Missionary System of the Latter-day Saints.
- The Utah Agricultural College.
- Alfred Lambourne, by Mahonri M. Young.
- The Latter-day Saints’ Hospital.
- Graduating Nurses’ Class, Latter-day Saints’ Hospital, 1913.
- The Y. M. M. I. A..
- Editors’ Table: Welcome.