Oldest Valentine Verse and Its World Spread
A retrospective on St Valentine’s Day origins from Greek echoes to Roman Lupercalia rites. It covers the Sacred urn tradition, Pope Gelasius I’s reform, and the shift to a Christian festival on February 14. It notes Orleans’ early verses, Valentine books, Esther Howland’s US manufacturing, and the rise and fall of comic valentines.
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Valentine
New York Herald
Lupercalia
Horner
Venus
Pope Gelastius
St. Valentine
Rome
Orleans
Agin
Carvalho
United States
Esther Howland
Mount Holyoke Seminary
Worcester
Mass
England
Navy Yard Retention Favored and New Bases Studied
Washington reports the three year naval program would keep all existing navy yards and add submarine bases on the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific coasts. A commission also calls for a wide aeronautical survey to locate future sea and air bases.
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George Clinton
Washington
Congress
Daniels
United States Navy
Navy Department
Department
United States
F& Commission of Naval
Atlantic
Gulf
Pacific
J. M. Helm
W. L. Capps
Navy
Continental
Carl ‘Vrooman
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Tower of London
Herrick
London
Smithfield
Ae Tong
Cape Horn
Houston
Bee
Agriculture
Wall.street
Department of’ Agriculture
Unite States
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau
Crop Reporting Board
Statistician
Vrooman
Charles F. Crisp
Roger Q. Mills
Joseph G. Cannon
David B. ‘Henderson
S Annon
Fou
Waesecenes
Senttsasoas