---
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: 20
number: 10
published: 1917-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 20, no. 10 (August 1917).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse
  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: improvementera20010unse
curator_note: Issue metadata, article boundaries, and printed-page mapping were verified from the issue masthead, contents, and scan images. Editorial leaves begin with printed p. 851; advertising leaves after p. 944 are omitted. Image-only frontispiece material is represented within the relevant item where caption text is available. The temporary page ledger and source audit are maintained outside the repository at /tmp/ie1917-may-aug.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse
  publication_year: 1917
  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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Improvement Era, August 1917

*Improvement Era*, vol. 20, no. 10 (August 1917).