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While Valentines Day has been marked with the sending of greeting cards for decades, there was no mention of it in any of the early newspapers I looked at. I did find references to Cupid, who has been associated with romance since Roman times when Valentines Day started out as the Roman celebration of Lupercalia.
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March 24, 1914 pg. 2
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Feb. 21, 1930, pg. 2