---
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: 21
number: 2
published: 1917-12
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* 21, no. 2 (December 1917): 95–188."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse
  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: improvementera2102unse
start_page: 95
end_page: 188
curator_note: Cover and masthead/contents retained. The source scan maps printed pp. 95–188 to leaves 3–96; cover advertising and the unnumbered frontispiece are omitted from transcription.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse
  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.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, vol. 21, no. 2 (December 1917), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- A United States Soldier, 95.
- A Journey to the South, 97.
- Remember the Sabbath Day, 114.
- Doc. Keaver’s Christmas Gift, 117.
- Makers of Science—III—Newton, 123.
- The “Mormon” Trace, 132.
- Is the Shadow Lifting from Palestine?, 137.
- Spiritual Training Indispensable in Education, 150.
- A Study of Evolution, 161.
- Editors’ Table, 167.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 174.
- Mutual Work, 177.
- Passing Events, 182.