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The article focuses on the valentines collections of Sy Seidman who sold papers in front of the city hall of New York. The earliest valentines in the U.S. were imported from England and France. The first appearance of crude comic valentines was in the 1860s, which was lithographed on the cheapest paper. Seidman's collection of mechanical banks is one of his proudest, but it is incomplete.

The article presents news briefs as of February 1942. The U.S. Navy is building ten submarines in Lake Michigan port. The total cinema attendance in Great Britain in 1941 was 15,000,000 greater than the previous high. The Manhasset Bay estate of the late Walter P. Chrysler in New York opens a training school for merchant-marine officers.

The article offers news briefs on bonds and railroads in New York as of September 1939. According to an annual report of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, 275 issues of foreign dollar outstanding bonds are in default. The number of passengers per year has declined since the opening of the Hudson River bridge and tunnels due to heavy taxes to build highways.

Presents news briefs in the U.S. as of August 6, 1938. Budget surplus posted by the state of New York after seven years of deficits; Victory of the Screen Writers Guild against the Screen Playwrights in the first Labor Relations Board election involving employees in the $250 to $3,000 a week salary bracket.

Reports that the U.S. federal government has gained possession of the knitting mill of the Import Knit Sportswear Mill during a public auction held in New York on June 3, 1938. Factor that led to the government ownership of the property.

The article presents the life of Sarah Newmeyer as a press agent in the fifth floor of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The museum's exhibitions included the finest collection of Italian masterpieces. Newmeyer stopped a publicity in a big show of the paintings of Salvador Dali. The author believes that as long as Sally is in the museum, it will continue to make the papers.

The author comments on the photograph of boxer Bob Murphy in which his bathrobe decorated with shamrocks and the word Irish written on its back was covered with adhesive tape under the order of the New York State Athletic Commission, based on the writing of journalist Red Smith. The commission was said to be sternly repressing all appeals to racial, religious, national or planetary prejudice.

The article looks at the job of several women at a factory of camera films of Ansco in Binghamton, New York. Factory rooms are compared to a coal mine. The corridor of spooling rooms are illuminated with green safe lights and has a broad white line on the floor to divide traffic. The company prohibits the use of cosmetics.