---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Williams, E. B.
  - Stephens, Evan
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 23
number: 10
published: 1920-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'E. B. Williams and Evan Stephens, "To Rest," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 10 (August 1920): 937–939.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23010unse
  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: improvementera23010unse
start_page: 937
end_page: 939
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23010unse
  publication_year: 1920
  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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

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