---
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: 12
published: 1914-10
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. 12 (October 1914): 1097–1188.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1712unse
  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: improvementera1712unse
start_page: 1097
end_page: 1188
curator_note: Cover and masthead retained. Editorial contents are split at source-native headings. Advertising leaves are intentionally omitted. Unnumbered front matter and image-only leaves are retained only where editorially material; the leaf-to-printed-folio ledger and audit artifacts remain outside the repository.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1712unse
  publication_year: 1914
  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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, vol. 17, no. 12 (October 1914).

## Editorial contents

- “Mormonism” and the Modern Man, 1097.
- The Parable of the Treasure-Vault, 1108.
- Indian Dialect and History, 1110.
- A New National Danger, 1120.
- The New Subject of Agricultural Engineering, 1122.
- My Debt, 1126.
- Fatal Objections to the Evolution Hypothesis, 1130.
- Symbolism: The Larger Issues of Life, 1139.
- Hebrew Idioms and Analogies in the Book of Mormon, 1147.
- A Righteous Woman’s Recompense, 1152.
- Editors’ Table: Thanks to Writers, Workers and Patrons, 1163.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 1174.
- Mutual Work, 1177.
- Passing Events, 1182.