---
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: 11
published: 1918-09
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* 21, no. 11 (September 1918): 937–1026."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse
  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: improvementera21011unse
start_page: 937
end_page: 1026
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Visual inspection maps the September editorial run to PDF leaves 3–92 (printed pp. 937–1026); front and back advertising leaves are omitted. Image-only illustrations are noted rather than transcribed as prose.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse
  publication_year: 1918
  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 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, vol. 21, no. 11 (September 1918), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- Bishop John Wells, 937.
- The Spirit of Song, 939.
- A Friend, 946.
- Dorothy’s Career, 947.
- Temple Ordinances, Blessings and Responsibilities, 955.
- Pink Pearls vs. Self-Respect, 959.
- Problems of the Age, 971.
- The Case Against Smokes, 984.
- Religion, Active and Passive, 993.
- Utah’s Detachment School, 995.
- The Social Hall, 1012.
- Editor’s Table, 1017.
- Mutual Work, 1021.
- Passing Events, 1024.