---
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: 11
published: 1913-09
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. 11 (September 1913): 1045–1168.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera16011unse
  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: improvementera16011unse
start_page: 1045
end_page: 1168
curator_note: Cover and masthead retained. Editorial contents are split at source-native headings. Advertising leaves and unnumbered front/back matter are intentionally omitted. The temporary leaf-to-printed-folio ledger and source audit are retained outside the repository.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera16011unse
  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*, vol. 16, no. 11 (September 1913).

## Editorial contents

- Poetry and Its Mission, 1045.
- Our Conception of Life, 1055.
- Now Pale the Distant Sun, 1059.
- Department of Vocations and Industries: About Higher Education, 1060.
- Utah, 1064.
- How Shall We Build This Great Empire?, 1068.
- Little Problems of Married Life: Comradeship in Married Life, 1071.
- Truth Seeking: Its Symptoms and After Effects, 1075.
- Joseph Smith, Jr., as a Translator, 1092.
- A Final Word, 1100.
- Communion, 1106.
- Voice of the Intangible: Communion with the Intangible, 1107.
- Through England's Cotton Mills, 1117.
- Daniel's Wisdom May I Know, 1127.
- The M. I. A. Contests: Significance of the Movement, 1130.
- M. I. A. Scouts, 1135.
- Church School Department: The Spirit of Church Education, 1137.
- William M. Stewart: Who Walked the World with Soul Awake, 1139.
- The University of Utah, 1146.
- Editors' Table: A Warning Voice, 1148.
- Priesthood Quorums' Table: Make a Good Beginning, 1157.
- Mutual Work: Joint Convention Meeting, 1159.
- Passing Events, 1165.