And we think Valentine’s Day is too commercialized…
JOHN’S VALENTINE–It was the evening of Valentine day when he called on her, and she stuck her head out of the door as he knocked, and sobbed, “If you had sent me a fifty-cent one with two hearts on it, I might have been all the world to you. John; but for a five-cent one, never-r-r.” And he sat down on the steps and wondered if girls would ever understand the depression in business.
— from: New Hampshire Sentinel (Keene NH), Thursday, April 13, 1876, page 4