The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-12

cially. They are in position to bear up under the present slow market. When the buying movement re- sumes consumers will find small stocks from which to draw and a greatly reduced current manufacture The wise consumer is not going to wait until others have purchased heavy tonnages at prevailing prices and sent the market upward again. The iron buyer should not go to sleep. Large as was the 1920 production. it has been consumed and is out of the way.
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 mihistr credited with having Invent ed the electric stock ticker died at Ashe- vile, N. C. He may have some difficulty in convincing St. Peter that his invention proved a blessing to humanity.
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 truce was declared in a threatened tong war in California to see if com promise could be made on cash basis Even tong wars are not the red-blooded affairs they used to be.
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 If might ha f< ;,f CTS of newspaper headlines that those Moose officials who are touring the south have no connection with the defunct bull moose party.
 ica probably accomplished something or other, but we won't know what it was until he writes about it in the maga- zines. Ii the .Mennonites settle in Alabama, let us hope there will be no occasion to shoulder arms for "Old Glory" They '''Siit iiVt pt dliuuS tHOSe present.. The esteemed wooden manufacturers say the public will not stand for high wages. But when. may we ask, did they consult the public about wages?
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 When that North Carolina man who is the father of 34 children is asked what he ever did for his country he can reply by merely calling the roll
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 A Boston dame deplores the promiscuity of kissing among girls and boys. A like that never would have come from old Anacreon
 # x # That bachelor admiral who has adopted a flock of little Russians is evidently ue- -ermined to have somebody to help him celebrate Christmas.
 < # # Reed Shoot that grand old apostle of reaction and big business, has jour- ,eyed to Marion, but not in the character ,f humble pilgrim
 # T # Novelist George pays his respects to Boston aristocracy, but q close analysIs # what he says will show that he is not ,xactly respectful.
  If America and Japan are building lavies against each other, it may take nore than the Pacific ocean to keep those lavies apart. Who is so chatty as the chatty tailor?' .sks B. T. Guessing off hand. we'd ay the young man behind the neckwear ,ounter.
 The blow fell just when an enterprising bowman was planning to put six shapely hula hula girls in the inaugural pa ade.
 Texas menaced by a Jap Invasion. s begmn!ng to understand how Cali ornia feels toward the little yellow ren,
 We wait with ill-concealed impatience 0 learn whether Or no the Harding cook s capable of dishing up state dinner,
 E * F vro oersiiers herself psychic, is sell oa, ar ayver good .oasekcepel.
 * E E Eirmingham's clima e s. oi course, su- 'er-or but there are times when we ear it turns hanispr.nSs.
 $ E 6 Allied representatives in Athens still eeclne to drop in on Constantinople md be sociable. Caesar thrice refused the crown. War en G. Harding may vet accept s.cceDo  Honeysuckle is said to be blooming in Kentucky But where are the mint beds f yesterday?
 Y King Alcohol has a wicked relation smed Wood, who treauently travels in osnito.
 PLACING HIM