1936 Mennonite Family Almanac

Interesting information on the Mennonite religion in the 1930s.

Advertising:

• Blizzard Ensilage Cutter and Hay Chopper
• Brooks’ Pneumatic air cushion for ruptures
• Allebach and Souder – Souderton Pa. : ‘Plain Clothing for Men and Women’
• Eastern Mennonite School – Harrisonburg Va.
• The Hager Store – Lancaster Pa. : ‘Plain Clothing for Men and Women’
• Hesston College and Bible School
• Prayer Covering Goods
• B. Yoder – Lancaster Pa. : ‘Plain Clothing for Men and Women’
• Holman Bibles
• The Mills Retail Store – Lancaster Pa. : ‘Plain Clothing for Men and Women’

Interesting articles:

• The Rural Field – A Glimpse at the Work and Its Problems (photo log cabin)
• Graces of our Homes (photo old lady in rocking chair)
• The Bible and the Home
• Little things that make a difference
• Where are your children’s teeth?
• Recipes: Chocolate Cake, Frozen Two and One. Steamed Cheery Pudding, ...
• Farm info: Pine Fed Pigs, Diarrheas' in Fowl, Red Clover Roots, …
• …

Daily information for each day of 1936: Sign of zodiac, moon, sun, saints, eclipses, etc.

Names and addresses for Bishops, Ministers and Deacons for Mennonite Church in Africa, Canada and all across USA. List for Amish Mennonite (Conservative), Old Order Mennonites, Amish Mennonites (Old Order), Church of God in Christ Mennonites, Mennonites (Defenseless). Central Conference of Mennonites, Missionaries, Mennonite Brethern Church of North America, etc…

64 pages + covers. Missing pages 31-34.

Hole for putting on nail!

Staining on outside covers, slight tear bottom of first and last two pages.

22.5 x 15 cm

Mennonite Publishing House (MC), Scottdale, PA, was the headquarters and chief place of business of the Mennonite Publication Board. It was a church-owned nonprofit institution. Proceeds above expenses and additional capital for expansion went into subsidies for literature and other forms of church work. It dated from 1908, when the Mennonite Publication Board was chartered and made Scottdale its place of business. Three years previously the Gospel Witness Company had been organized and had begun the publication and sale of religious literature. Jacob S. Loucks, Aaron Loucks, and A. D. Martin had an important part in these first steps in the development of a church-owned publishing house. The assets of the Gospel Witness Company were purchased by the Mennonite Publication Board, and the two privately owned buildings which had been used by the Gospel Witness Company were rented until purchased in 1914. Expanding business made it necessary to build a new four-story building in 1921-1922.

Aaron Loucks was the General Manager of the Publishing House from its beginning in 1908 until 1935, when A. J. Metzler became his successor (since called Publishing Agent).

The Mennonite Publishing House was engaged in printing, publishing, and bookselling. It published periodicals (Gospel Herald, Christian Living, Youth's Christian Companion, Words of Cheer, Beams of Light, Christian Ministry, Christian School, El Heraldo, and The Way), tracts, books, and educational materials (Herald Uniform Sunday School Series, Herald Summer Bible School Series). It printed most of its own published materials and did much work for district conferences, institutions, and other organizations of the Mennonite Church (MC), although most of the district conference organs were not published by it. It sold by mail order and through eight retail stores (Scottdale, Lancaster, New Holland, and Souderton, PA; Kitchener and London, ON; Goshen, IN; and Bloomington, Illinois, USA).

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