---
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: 22
number: 2
published: 1918-12
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* 22, no. 2 (December 1918): 93–184."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2202unse
  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: improvementera2202unse
start_page: 93
end_page: 184
curator_note: Cover, masthead, contents, and editorial material retained. The authoritative scan maps the December editorial run to PDF leaves 5–94 (printed pp. 95–184); cover advertising and unnumbered plates are omitted. The contents lists the opening photograph ‘Doing their Bit in an Idaho Field’ on p. 93 and a Nazareth frontispiece; these image-only items are represented here rather than transcribed as prose.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2202unse
  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. 22, no. 2 (December 1918), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.

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## Editorial contents

- Sayings, Sentiments and Stories, 95.
- Wilbur’s Christmas Gift, 107.
- This Side and the Other, 117.
- George Halls, 119.
- Little Bardina, 123.
- The Christmas Awakening, 128.
- Mysterious Ways, 131.
- God the Great Physician, 133.
- At the Top of the Canyon, 136.
- My Star, 140.
- Outlines for Scout Workers, 142.
- Subduing the Alberta Prairie, 145.
- Died in Service, 148.
- A Testimony, 153.
- Defeat, 156.
- Editor’s Table, 166.
- Mutual Work, 178.
- Passing Events, 181.