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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 ...
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933 Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [ 9 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
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
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Crawford was a member of the Memphis State Tigers for four seasons. He was the team's leading receiver as a junior with 31 receptions for 594 yards and three touchdowns and as a senior, when he caught 32 passes for 523 yards and two touchdowns and was named All-Metro Conference.
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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 ...