St. Patrick's Day Greeting Cards: a Century of Newspaper Advertising ~

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ERNEST DUDLEY CHASE

reflections on the custom of sending 

Saint Patrick's Day greeting cards ~ 

"Comic and semi-comic post cards were published for those who desired to 

greet one another on 

Saint Patrick's Day long before 

the advent of the greeting card and even after cards for

 other occasions were in constant use.  

It was not until 1912 or 1913 

that the first greeting cards

(in their present form) 

were issued covering Saint Patrick's Day,

 and while many of them were 

comic or 'slap stick' 

the more serious type of 

sentiment came into use"

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