Bethlen Naptar (Bethlen Almanac) 1944
Ligonier, PA: Bethlen Home, 1944. Hardcover. Hardcover in balck cloth with tipped on decorated title front cover. Very good, some soiling to the paper paste on, small previous owner's notation and a handwritten 10-cent price upper front free endpaper. 335 pp. illustarted with black and white photos. Text in Hungarian. The 1944 almanac issued by the Bethlen Home located in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. First section is an almanac with unused sheets for notations; followed by (so far as we can determine--we don't read Hungarian) history and information about the organization; the center portion is, more importantly as this was wartime, is a 93 page section of members of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America then serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, with photographs of each; a necrology, and ads at rear. The Bethlen Communities and the Bethlen Home, were founded in 1921 as an orphanage by the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America after the Amithton. Pa. Darr Coal Mine explosion. In it was expanded 1924 to include a home for the aged. The Home is still in operation. Very Good. Item #E22821
Price: $25.00