---
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: 19
number: 11
published: 1916-09
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* 19, no. 11 (September 1916): 953–1044."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera19011unse
  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: improvementera19011unse
start_page: 953
end_page: 1044
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves 1–4 and 97–100 are omitted. Editorial folios 953–1044 were visually mapped from leaves 5–96.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera19011unse
  publication_year: 1916
  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 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, vol. 19, no. 11 (September 1916), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- The Temple in Hawaii: A Remarkable Fulfilment of Prophecy, 953.
- The Parable of the Broken Flask, 959.
- Pugnacity and Gregariousness, 961.
- Outlines for Scout Workers. XII: Mourning Dove, 968.
- Flag of the United States of America—Our Country, 973.
- The True Gentleman, 980.
- The ‘Higher Criticism’ and the Variant Names for God in the Bible. I, 984.
- ‘Mormonism’s’ Message to the World, 990.
- The Seer, 994.
- Victims Three, 999.
- Humor, 1002.
- The Meaning of Education. V: The Decay of the World, 1006.
- Stories of Unwise Men, 1009.
- The Greatness of Little Things, 1011.
- On Villa’s Trail in Mexico. I, 1015.
- Editors’ Table, 1020.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 1028.
- Mutual Work, 1031.
- Passing Events, 1039.