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The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
Cody’s bid was endorsed by both The Commercial Appeal and the Memphis Press-Scimitar, the evening daily newspaper, which ceased publication in 1983. He also had the support of much of the ...
Memphis 1866 1885 [21] Memphis Daily Appeal: Memphis 1847 1886 [22] Memphis Daily Commercial: Memphis 1889 1891 [23] Memphis Daily Scimitar: Memphis 1881 [3] Became News Scimitar in 1907, Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1926 [8] Memphis Free Speech: Memphis 1888 [16] Memphis Morning News: Memphis 1902 1904 [24] Memphis Post: Memphis 1866 1869 Memphis ...
In John Grisham's novel The Client, the Memphis Press is fictionally presented as still existing and flourishing as a major Memphis paper into the 1990s.. In the 2004 movie The Ladykillers, during the basement scene where Tom Hanks's character Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr describes forming the crew for the heist, he references having posted an ad in the Memphis Scimitar, which the ...
There was a five-hour wake the day before the funeral on April 1, 1968. [8] Six hundred attended his funeral at Clayborn Temple on April 2, 1968. [9] Striking sanitation workers, clergy members who supported the strike, and national television representatives were all in attendance, as well as the students and faculty of Mitchell Road High School where Payne was enrolled prior to his death.
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Here is The Commercial Appeal's 2023 All-Metro football teams. This year's selections includes a first and second team. First team Offense Kelvin Perkins
Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950) was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee.