---
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: 17
number: 2
published: 1913-12
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* 17, no. 2 (December 1913): 97–186.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1702unse
  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: improvementera1702unse
start_page: 97
end_page: 186
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 1913-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1702unse
  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. 17, no. 2 (December 1913).

## Editorial contents

- Agricultural Conditions in Book of Mormon Times, 97.
- Why Are You Sad?, 101.
- Jim Bridger, Our First Citizen, 102.
- Belated Emigrants of 1856, 108.
- Peculiar Japanese Religion, 118.
- The Last Celebration of the 24th at the Birthplace of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 122.
- Voice of the Intangible: The Way of the Transgressor, 128.
- Zion Cannot Be Defiled, 137.
- To Him Who Strives, 141.
- The Morning Breaks, 157.
- Discoveries on the Colorado, 160.
- Editors' Table: Greeting from the First Presidency, 168.
- Priesthood Quorums' Table: Important Rulings, 180.
- Mutual Work: Changes in Y. M. M. I. A. Membership Age, 181.
- Passing Events, 184.