MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
Cleo Inc., at one time one of Memphis’s largest manufacturing companies, is for sale. Gibson Greetings Inc. of Cincinnati, which makes greeting cards, announced Tuesday it is seeking a buyer for Cleo, its unprofitable giftwrap subsidiary. Cleo’s 1,900 employees learned Tuesday of the plans to sell the company.
50 years ago — 1970
A many-splendored Cotton Carnival week floated into Memphis last night as the royal barge, against a backdrop of fireworks bursting high over the Mississippi River, landed King W. Neely Mallory Jr. and Queen Patte Quinlen and their court at the end of Monroe. With pageantry, parades and revelry, the 1970 Carnival arrived to intoxicate the city with gaiety, denying clouds that all day had threatened the Mid-south’s greatest party.
75 years ago — 1945
Exercises for 79 nurses to be graduated from the Baptist Hospital School of Nursing will be held Tuesday night at Bellevue Baptist Church.
100 years ago — 1920
Safeblowers entered the post office at Normal, Tenn., early Monday morning, dynamiting the safe and robbing it of about $425. Professor C.H. Wilson of the Normal School faculty heard the explosion and went to his front porch armed with a shotgun. He states he saw the car which they used pass his residence, and could easily have shot them had he known their identity. Shelby County Sheriff Perry, when questioned about the robbery, said he knew nothing of it until reading the newspapers.
125 years ago — 1895
The Commercial Appeal must respectfully decline the invitation of lobbyized newspapers to keep its nose out of Arkansas affairs. We do not think the people of Arkansas resent our labors in their behalf.