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Teddy Bears
The teddy bear traces its name and origin directly to a 1902 hunting trip taken by President Theodore Roosevelt in Mississippi, during which Roosevelt famously refused to shoot a bound, exhausted bear cub his hunting guides had captured for him — an incident widely covered in newspapers and captured in a political cartoon that inspired candy shop owner Morris Michtom to create and sell a stuffed "Teddy's bear" toy shortly afterward. Michtom's toy became successful enough that he and his wife Rose founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company in Brooklyn specifically to manufacture teddy bears at scale, helping launch what became a massive and enduring category of the American toy industry that's remained popular for well over a century since. The teddy bear's association with Valentine's Day specifically grew through the mid-to-late 20th century as manufacturers began producing heart-holding and Valentine-themed variants marketed directly at the holiday, positioning the stuffed animal as a gentler, less expensive alternative to jewelry or flowers. Its combination of a genuinely well-documented presidential origin story and a century-long run as one of America's most beloved stuffed toys has made the teddy bear one of the most enduringly sentimental and approachable Valentine's Day gifts, especially for new or younger relationships.
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Greeting Cards
Valentine's Day greeting cards trace back to handmade paper valentines exchanged in England and colonial America well before mass production existed, but the holiday's modern card-giving tradition owes its scale substantially to Hallmark, founded in Kansas City in 1910, which became the dominant force in commercially printed greeting cards across the 20th century. The Greeting Card Association estimates that roughly 145 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged in the United States each year, excluding the additional cards children exchange in school classroom valentine parties — a scale that makes Valentine's Day the second-largest card-sending occasion of the year in the US, behind only Christmas. That classroom-exchange tradition, in which schoolchildren give small valentines to every classmate rather than a single romantic recipient, has broadened the holiday's card-giving custom well beyond romantic couples alone, embedding it into American childhood as a shared classroom ritual rather than purely an adult romantic gesture. Its combination of centuries-old handmade paper valentine traditions and a modern mass-production greeting card industry anchored by companies like Hallmark has made the greeting card one of the most universally exchanged Valentine's Day gifts across every age group in the country.
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