While perusing the newspapers researching items of histoic note, I came across these Valentine's Day jewels. First, this ad for Valentines that ran in the Daily Kansas Tribune several days in 1866:
I'm not sure what advertising class that typesetter attended, but they definitely got the point across.
Then we get the sentimental Valentine stories with fittingly sappy illustrations. These are from the February 14 edition of The Leavenworth Standard in 1888:
One notice that was particularly interesting from an 1866 paper was an editorial decrying the decline of Valentine's Day and explaining that not as many Valentines are mailed these days. The stores used to be decked out for Valentine's Day and now they are dull by comparison. If only that editor could travel in time to Walmart in January!!
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