---
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: 18
number: 1
published: 1914-11
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* 18, no. 1 (November 1914): 3–94.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1801unse
  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: improvementera1801unse
start_page: 3
end_page: 94
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 1914-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1801unse
  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. 18, no. 1 (November 1914).

## Editorial contents

- The Story of the Crystal, 3.
- The Country Cross Roads, 8.
- A Righteous Woman’s Recompense, 11.
- Some Conditions of Success, 23.
- Evolution Arguments Analyzed, 25.
- Ward Teaching and Class Efficiency, 34.
- Joseph Fielding Smith—An Appreciation, 38.
- Modern Industrial Achievements, 46.
- Does God Answer Prayer?, 51.
- Government Investigation of the “Mormon” Question, 56.
- Value of True Education, 63.
- Training for Leadership, 68.
- Editors’ Table: Review of Church Conditions—Peace, 74.
- Mutual Work: Scout Lessons for Juniors, 89.
- Passing Events, 92.