The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-22
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Jury's Verdict Will
 Be Hard To Explain 1f1WELVE men sworn to render U true verdict according to the evidence have found the Rev. E. R. Stephenson not guilty of the murder of the Rev. Father James F.. Coyle, and thus ends one of the most un- fortunate tragedies ever enacted in Jefferson county.
 The jurymen, after hearing all the testimony, no doubt were sincere and conscientious in their verdict. But it will be hard to explain to the outside world. Even those in Bir- mingham who have taken only such cursory interest in the case as im- pelled them to wish the law to take it's regular course will find the yer. dict hard to understand, Stripped of extraneous matter they only know that man, greatly excited by the disappearance of his daughter, with "a pistol in his pocket, went to an- other mans house and killed him on the front porch.
 The verdict must have been based on various extenuating circum- stances, such as the pleas of mental Responsibility, self-defense and chivalric protection of loved one. But even at that the whole thing is unfortunate for Birmingham. Colleges and universities are plan ming q disarmament conference, but not because some unruly student with weakness for hazing has been dis covered carrying blackjack.
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 If you don't know how to pro- nounce the name of Hungary's am bassador to the United States. just say he's the fellow who married Gladys Vanderbilt.
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 Captain Fitzpatrick says he's proud to be an Alabamian. and the good old state will look better to him after his experiences in Russian prisons than it ever did before
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 The fact that General Pershing re- gently decorated the grave of Frances unknown poilu doesn't mean thing to French communists.
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 Whats become of the old -fasn- toned woman who said she would rather die than see her daughter painted like barber's pole.
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 It's dull day when dry agents fail to unearth liquor plot involving a few million dollars and group of alert distributors.
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 Tanks might be converted into tractors, but battleship that isn't used In war is dead weight on tax payers. If President Harding can find way out of the railroad trouble he will be able to qualify as master 
 The conversation step" looks like another attempt to prove that dancing Is not the poetry of motion.
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 Roscoe c. Arbuckle. formerly movie star, is sojourning in Sap Francisco waiting to attend court.
 
 Portugal has new cabinet and has lost few former cabinet nom- bers by the assassination route.
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 In the event of railroad strike the nations motor ears win be expected to hit on all six cylinders.
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 Birmingham feels young at 30, tut she'll be an old woman compared to the county queens.
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 It looks as if the railway labor board were headed toward innosuous desuetude.
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 A great deal of public spirit dies a natural death immediately after an election.
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 Hush. little blue bill don't you cry. Youu be statute, by and by.
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 The poor and the murder fan we have always with us.
 
 THE HUMOROUS BOOTLEGGER From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Boston scissors grinder put up a sign, "The Place To Get an Edge