Valentine Memories and a Forgetful Shopper tale
An urban shopper misses a 27 cent coffee mill sale at State street, while a Grown-up Boy recalls a long childhood romance with a girl named Laura. He abandons clever love for a valentine, faces mockery from peers, and learns decades later Laura marries the Perkins boy. His wife scolds him for forgetfulness as the ad is gone.
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State Street
Old Union School
Perkins
Laura
Myer’s
Roy
Valentine
Mrs. Perkins
Hearts To Let A Saint Valentine Party Game
A playful Saint Valentine game called Hearts To Let has girls blindfolded and seated by labeled chairs for each young man. They walk to music and choose chairs, revealing affection as the bandages come off. Men then repeat, pairing with the labeled girl, in a lighthearted social activity.
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Hearts
Jerusalem
Home Made Valentines Craft Ideas
Home made valentines can outdo store bought cards through simple techniques. Hearts cut from water color paper or gilded with a written verse, folded packets, candy heart boxes, and heart shaped cakes with ribbon bows all offer charming, inexpensive options. Original rhymes are encouraged and not difficult to create.
A Vindictive Glee
A quoted exchange features Miss Cayenne humorously hoping for comic valentine cards as a sign of having stirred enemies. The dialogue reflects wry social sniping and playful malice within a lighthearted, period tone.
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Miss Cayenne
Divine Certainties in Christ Promises Sure in Him
A 1903 sermon argues that all God’s promises find certainty only in Christ. It contrasts transient earthly “sure things” with eternal Divine certainty, tracing promises from creation to Bethlehem and Calvary. The piece lauds faith as stepping stones to eternal life and holds that God’s word endures in Jesus for glory to God.
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A. M. Kellogg Newspaper Co
Chicago
Abraham
Paul
Bethlehem
Christ the Lord
God
Christ
Enoch
Tabernacles
Isaac
Jacob
Mount Olivet
Lfe
City of God
Christ Jesus
Jesus Christ
Alway
Jesus
Earth
Heaven
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