MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1993
KNOXVILLE — Tennessee’s city leaders voted Friday to urge the legislature to let citizens vote on lifting the state’s ban on lotteries. The 25-member board of the Tennessee Municipal League voted overwhelmingly to back legislation calling a referendum in November 1994. But members avoided the more delicate questions of the pros and cons of a lottery and other gambling. Memphis officials, who want to bring casinos to the city, said they were encouraged by the vote.
50 years ago — 1968
Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s visit to Memphis was scrubbed from the presidential campaign slate yesterday. A spokesman at Democratic national headquarters in Washington said Humphrey’s Tennessee plans had been tentative. John Ford Canale, chairman of arrangements here, said he regretted the revision was necessary “and we stand ready to welcome the Vice President on any future date.”
75 years ago — 1943
The negro division of the Third War Loan Drive will be given added impetus when W.C. Handy arrives in town today. Tomorrow afternoon, he will speak at Russwood Park, where the local baseball game between the Memphis Red Sox and Cincinnati Clowns will be played. Handy will remain in Memphis through September 30 to aid the division in its drive.
100 years ago — 1918
WASHINGTON — Americans will be asked to subscribe within the next three weeks, beginning Saturday, to the greatest loan in history, totaling $6,000,000,000 for the war effort.
125 years ago — 1893
Miss Mary Lou Bolling and Miss Nellie Musser today opened their new studio in the Randolph Building at Beale and Main. It adjoins the rooms of the Nineteenth Century Club.