Complex sentence: Valentine's Day, 14 February 1900 was a Wednesday, not a Saturday as depicted in the story, and all attempts by enthusiastic readers to find historical evidence of the event, characters, or even Appleyard College, have proved fruitless.
Split into simpler sentences: Valentine's Day, 14 February 1900 was a Wednesday, not a Saturday as depicted in the story. All attempts by enthusiastic readers to find historical evidence of the event, characters, or even Appleyard College, have proved fruitless.