The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-02

cents per quart The 1919 plantings were only fifty-one thousand acres, with prices from eighteen to thirty five cents.
 Mr. Holman, of York, Ala, the largest individual grower in the south, shipped in 1918 over twenty-five thou sand crates, which at $4, produced a gross revenue of $102,00o.
 Due to dry weather the past sea- son, but ten thousand crates were grown, which at an average of $6, produced gross of $6O,00O.
 Mir. Holman believes that could he have secured the labor necessary to work the crop, he would have been able to have doubled the size of the yield.
 The logical conclusion is that inten- sive cultivation will yield a record production in 1920.
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 Ella Wheeler Wilcox is already said to be writing poetry from the spirit world, Why, she hasn't had time yet to get acquainted with Sappho. Shake speare and other literary celebrities believed to be knocking about some- where across the Styx
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 A newspaper reader protests at the amount Of newspaper space given to Bandit "Bi1I" Carlisle Tut, tut! Doesn't the gentleman remember the time when he was thrillede by reading The James Boys in Missouri" Some of us refuse to grow ups
 # < x May wirth, star of the circus world, has taken unto herself 8 husband who is somewhat deaf but he won't need an ear trumpet to hear the applause when May is performing on the back of her big white horse
 * < * The public prints carry a picture of "Pussyfoot" Johnson smiling from un- der his bandaged eye. The man is a positive genius at getting free pub licity So far the weather man has been kind to us. We have merely had enough cold weather to remind us what al pickle we'd be in if an honest to- good l ness blizzard swooped this way.
 Prof. Corbett says it's quite ethical for MT. Dempsey to refrain from fight l ing for year or two. So far as we are concerned, Mir. Dempsey need never l lift another mitt.
 x x + Barbados, says a magazine writer, is free from political strife because it has lAO poi eASo. hdl pCAHS lHC SeStt .lnuoh7 room statesmen" must be scarce in Barbados. 4,-,-
 # + * The old adage about an i'll wind again holds true. Early closing is borne with equanimity by tired shop girls. Naturally the deposed king of Monte ! negro doesn't want his country ab- sorbed by Serbia. There would be no chance, then to get his job back
 + F T* In spite of many warnings, people 1 continue to play right into the hands of undertakers by drinking wood al- cohol. Reports from Michigan indicate that Senator7Newberry and large number of his political followers are practical men. When every workingman in the world receives a minimum wage of $50 a week who's going to fight the bat ties of the proletariat?
 # # # If it's any satisfaction to Gen. John l J. Pershing, we wish him to know that Birmingham thinks just as much of l him as little old New York.
 x * x It's too bad that the American and Mexican governments should begin an orgy of underwriting just when there's 1 such. an acute shortage of white paper. 1
 # * # The closing of Paris dance halls may discourage number ofAmerican tour ists on the eve Of their departure for France.
 Why. doesn't some statfstician tell us how many million 'American people are now eating turkey hash?
 * * # Things are breaking we'll for Hank" Ford these days, particularly in the boss ridden state of Michigan. THE POLITICIAN AND HIS CIGAR From the Philadelphia Inquirer. To what new complexion politics xu;tb -ovpep yofiDp if woy,ld