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Just after one midnight last week Sheriff Louis Corbitt of Henry County, Ala. and Jailer J. N. Corbitt. his father, asleep in their first-floor bedrooms…

Reflections: Letter to the editor from 1874 By Evelyn Long - Contributing Columnist I love reading letters to the editor from years past. Writers held nothing back and at the same time the editors printed their thoughts. I want to share this letter written to Editor Brown, The Independent, and published May 21, 1874. “Mr Editor: We have a railroad in operation and two more in our mind’s eye. We have a navagable river (for turtles); We have a beautiful park to look at but not to walk in; We ...