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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1951
Page
3
Washington dispatch notes multiple Valentine origin theories centering on Cupid and Chaucer. Historian George Stimpson traces modern card industry roots to early romance markets, where lovers exchanged verses and gifts as greeting card rivals compete for attention.
John Robert Powers explores Valentine traditions from ancient times to Shakespeare and 18th century London, noting gifts, poems, and odd rituals. The piece blends literary references with anecdotes, mentioning Wordsworth Byron Pepys and a 1754 society dame. It reflects on modern costs and enduring images of romance.
In Fort Worth a quirky account riffs on Valentine Day lore, old and new, comparing archival Library of Congress valentines with modern mass cards. It mulls love clichés, jokes, and gender flirtations, noting how sentiment shifts while grandfathers and poets linger in memory.
A cookbook blurb describes Rarebit and Spanish Rice sauces to dress rice, fish, or eggs for luncheons. It provides two sauce recipes: a hot cheese based rarebit with butter cheese mustard Worcestershire Tabasco and egg, and a tomato mushroom Spanish sauce with onions peppers garlic and cooked tomatoes. Each yields about 2 cups or 14 servings. The Sauce book costs 25 cents.
Ely Nevada police issue a winter safety slogan for residents to avoid injuries from improvised sledding lanes. The warning, Make it a sleighing season instead of a slaying season, targets imprudent youths using makeshift snow runs and mentions a drop head sewing machine needle as a hazard.
AP report from Tuscaloosa states four year old Michael Lambert was struck and killed by a truck near Holt yesterday as the child darted into the road. Officers said the child ran into the path of the vehicle.
Carolyn Stroupe, a West Palm Beach High School senior, won Miss Florida Citrus 1951 at the Florida Citrus Exhibition in Winter Haven. She received about $5,000 in prizes, jewelry worth $1,200, a wardrobe, and weekend trips to Miami Beach and New York. Runners up included Kada Williams and Diana Thompson.
Atlanta AP report says the Senate Appropriations Committee approved an extra 500000 to the pending budget, amid battles over anti segregation bills. The panel restored a House provision to cut state funds to the university system if the Supreme Court rules against segregation. The measure could go to a conference committee with possible floor debate today or tomorrow.
ADVENTURES OF UNCLE JIM MY a thrilling radio story of Arnold and Florence Stewart their erring gon Bobby his wife Rosalyn Uncle Jimmy and thet friends is now sponsored each Friday by Hood Chemical Co makers of EZ hqud starch Heard over Radio WOOF the show has built up to its present crisis in which Booby entangled himself with immoral debts Housewives invited to listen five days weekly at 930 am est Another show MISS ADDISON PELLETIER follows the above story at 10 90 in a show for ladies combining stories receipes news and petty palaver
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