---
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: 12
published: 1916-10
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* 19, no. 12 (October 1916): 1047–1124."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1912unse
  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: improvementera1912unse
start_page: 1047
end_page: 1124
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered announcement, volume-index, and advertising leaves 1–20 and 99–100 are omitted. Editorial folios 1047–1124 were visually mapped from leaves 21–98.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1912unse
  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. 12 (October 1916), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- Why Not Be Consistent?, 1047.
- His Mother’s Honesty, 1051.
- Scenes of Grandeur, 1056.
- Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, 1058.
- Shakespeare, 1061.
- The ‘Higher Criticism’ and the Variant Names for God in the Bible. II, 1065.
- Labor and Life, 1071.
- Outlines for Scout Workers. XIII: The American Goldfinch, 1074.
- The Recompense, 1078.
- Ninth Ward M. I. A. Boys’ Band, 1087.
- Going Home to Willard: A Reminiscence, 1088.
- On Villa’s Trail in Mexico. II, 1094.
- Obedience to the Call, 1098.
- Prohibition in Canada, 1100.
- The Meaning of Education. VI: The Ideals of the Schools, 1101.
- A Plea for Prohibition, 1107.
- Editors’ Table, 1110.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 1116.
- Mutual Work, 1118.
- Passing Events, 1122.