---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Anderson, Edward H. and Stephens, Evan
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 5
published: 1919-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Anderson, Edward H. and Stephens, Evan, "Look Up and be Happy, My Boy," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 5 (March 1919): 391–392.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2205unse
  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: improvementera2205unse
start_page: 391
end_page: 392
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2205unse
  publication_year: 1919
  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 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

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