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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1876

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 2, No. 46.

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Our Health Almanac.

By James White

OUR FAMILY Health Almanac for 1877 is being rushed through the press as fast as possible. Application is made to print a very large edition for California; but our presses cannot do the work. It will, however, be printed at the Office of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES at Oakland, Cal. All orders for our Almanac to be circulated in the Pacific Coast States and Territories should be forwarded to SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, California. Price, postage paid, 10 cents.
Our Almanac has been prepared by the able, careful, and critical hand of Dr. Kellogg, and is well printed on fine stock. It is an honor to our Health Institute as a production from the Physician-in-chief, and speaks well for our publishing house as a specimen of the printing art. This work should be widely circulated as it is an almanac free from the corrupting influence of comic pictures and vulgar stories, and also free from deceptive advertisements of poisonous medicines which curse the world. Our almanac is the very best publication we can first circulate to open the minds of the people to the great health question, as it contains a select amount of health reading unexceptionable to the common reader.
The Tract and Missionary Societies can circulate more than 150,000 copies of our Almanacs east of the Rocky Mountains without embarrassing their treasuries. Eld. B. L. Whitney, President of the Tract Society in the State of New York, has sent his order, and if other States order amounts corresponding in membership to the Empire State, more than 150,000 of our Almanacs will be taken by the T. and M. workers. The sums corresponding to membership are as follows:— New York, 10,000; Michigan, 50,000; Iowa, 19,000; Wisconsin, 18,000; Minnesota, 12,000; Ohio, 7,000; New England, 6,000; Kansas, 6,000; Illinois, 6,000; Indiana, 5,000; Vermont, 5,000; Missouri, 5,000; Maine, 4,000; Virginia, 1,000; Texas, 1,000; Total, 155,000.
Some of these will overrun the number stated, while some may fall short. In addition to these amounts, individuals are taking lots in which pages of advertisements are inserted of their local business, such as merchants, mechanics, &c., &c. J. W.