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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.
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 ...
Here is The Commercial Appeal's 2023 All-Metro football teams. This year's selections includes a first and second team. ... Morrow had 1,212 all-purpose yards and 12 total touchdowns. Defensively ...
Heather Armstrong (1975–2023) — author and blogger, Dooce.com; Kristin Armstrong (born 1973) — professional road bicycle racer and three-time Olympic gold medalist; George Awsumb (1880–1959) — Norwegian-American architect; Gwen Robinson Awsumb (1915–2003) — first woman elected to Memphis City Council
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1836 – Memphis Enquirer newspaper begins publication. [4] 1841 – The Appeal newspaper begins publication. 1843 New Orleans-Memphis telegraph begins operating. [3] Memphis Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication. [4] 1844 – Calvary Episcopal Church consecrated. [5] 1849 – Memphis incorporated as a city. [1] [2] 1850 Town designated a ...
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