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Hey! Did you know that Valentines Day is on its way?

You did? Well thats great! So did I!

I'm not doing anything for Valentines Day really. I wonder how Valentines Day was made...? Let's find out!

Okay, Well, Valentines day is actually created made for a saint: Saint Valentintine. People have been celebrating Valentines day for a long time, or a least treating the month of February as a romantic month. Even though we really don't know that much about the saint.

Valentines day has been celebrated by both Christians and anchient Romans. The Catholic recognizes Valentines day from 3 different saints: that are named Valentine,or Valentinus. Somethink that Valentine was a priest during 3rd century Rome. When Claudius II outlawed young men from being married because he said that men without family were better soldiers, Valentine defied the kng. He would marry young adults in secret, and when Claudius found out... Valentine was sentenced to death.

Another story says that Valentine was killed when he was helping Christians escape from Roman Prisons where they were being tortured.

In another legend Valentine sent the first valentine card to himself. When he was in prison, he fell in love with a young woman who is thought to be his jailor's kid who would visit him while he was serving his term. Before he died he was supposed to have written a letter that was signed: From your Valentine. And that expression is still used.

Some also think that Valentines day is a memorial for his death. This supposed to have been near 270 A.D. But some think that it was put their by the Christian church to christianize and to cleanze. And that they set it up as a feasting day. Thus, the candy.

It is also said that Valentine's day began in the middle ages as a popular holiday. And, did you know that we send over a billion Valentines cards a year?

Speaking of Valentine's Day. Why don't we figure out a little bit about Hallmark. Seeing how they are the big time card producers and everything.

For this one I am going to do a sort of timeline thing. And, just so you know. Iam researching everything that I put down on this site as i write it!

1891- Joyce Clyde Hall was born. Spesifically; August 29, 1891. (Wow Hallmark must have been around for a LONG time!) Oh, and he was born in David City, Nebraska. By the parents of: George Nelson Hall and Nancy Dudley Hall, as their third child. A couple years after they moved to Norfolk and his two brothers opened a bookstore; Norfolk Postcard company.

1910-At 18; January 10, 1910, Joyce Hall went to Kansas city. Where Hallmark orginated. He first started by wholesaling postcards from YMCA by they were complaining of lots of mail volume. So, he opened an office in the Bradley Building @ 308 East 10th Street. And that is when Hall Brother's started. When in 1911 they moved to 915 Brodway.

1912-Joyce and his brothers added greeting cards to their bussiness because postcards were going down in popularity. And, in 1913 they moved again to 1019 Grand Avenue. And in 1914 they published 20 engraved Christmas cards.

1915-January 11, a fire destroyed the Hall Brother's shop. All of their inventory including Valentine's orders were destroyed. And, they are 17,000 $ in debt. Then, they bought some new engraaveing presses and moved down the block to 1025 Grand Avenue and started makin their own cards.

1916-Open a store @ 113 East 11th Street.

1917-Open their first humor cards. And, they started making gift wrap because they ran out of Christmas tissue.

1919-Hall Brother's has 25 employies. And open another shop @ 1114 Grand Avenue. Friendship cards start.

1921-Joyce marries Elizabeth Ann Dilday.

1923-The official name is changed to Hall Brother's Inc. Now they have 120 workers and move to 26th and Walnut.

1924-flat cards start. And famous mottos start in October.

1925-Hallmark is put on products. There are 12 hired artists.Ribbons are added.Party invitations, seals, birth announcements, and dance programs start along with calenders and sympathy acnowledgements.

1927-Joyce buys a house with Elizabeth.

1928-Donal Joyce is born July 9. Hallmark is on the back of all the cards. Their first add in Ladies Home Journal is published.

1931-Hallmarks first color add is put in a Canadian magazine.

1932-Hallmark has the right to use Disney characters.

1934-Hallmark is the first company to have coffee breaks.

1943-First out of state shop is opened in Topeka Kansas.

1949-The crown logo is introduced.

1950-Hallmark's logo is registered as a trademark.

1956-The company moves to its present location: 25th and Mcgee.They start the Career Rewards Program with insurance and profit sharing, and retirement.

1960-Hallmark's 50th anniversary. Peanuts characters appear.

Well, this is all that I have. I hope that you like these wonderful articles.

Thank you for reading this, or not. Ha-ha. If you didn't that is okay. But then you wouldn't be reading this would you?

Thanks agian. (Just so you know, I am actually doing this to even out the columns.)

-Mo

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