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Column: Colorful excerpt of copy from Gainesville newspaper of old
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Johnny Vardeman
The Gainesville Eagle was the predecessor to today’s The Times. The four-page weekly was founded by W.H. Mitchell as the Air Line Eagle in July 1860, and W.J. Sloan took it over after the Civil War in 1865.