MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
The Tightwad Gazette, the bible of frugality, is folding — in part, because when it comes to ideas, the publisher is broke. “It’s tremendously hard to find subjects that apply to everyone. At some point, you have to repeat yourself,” Amy Dacyczyn said in announcing that she will stop publication of the newsletter she founded six years ago. “I’d like to do something else,” said the 40-year-old mother of six, whose name is pronounced “decision.” “I don’t have very specific plans. I think the idea of having multiple careers in a lifetime is a very interesting prospect.” Dacyczyn is working on a third book based on the newsletter, which is read by an estimated 45,000 penny-pinching households nationwide.
50 years ago — 1971
Amid decorations of colorful banners and religious messages, Carroll T. Dozier was ordained bishop of the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis as about 8,500 persons watched in the Mid-south Coliseum last night. The ceremonies started as the audience stood and sang “All The Earth Proclaim The Lord” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful” and the color guard signaled that the procession was beginning. After John Cardinal Wright was seated on his throne at the back of the sanctuary, which was positioned on the east end of the coliseum floor, Archbishop Thomas Mcdonough of the Louisville Archdiocese read the apostolic mandate establishing the Memphis Diocese and making Immaculate Conception Catholic Church the cathedral.
75 years ago — 1946
Mrs. Edith Swink Rogers, who left her husband’s plantation in Mississippi for a short-lived romance with a Nazi prisoner of war, returned to the seclusion of her parents’ home here yesterday while her German admirer awaited in Nashville for return to the camp from which he fled. Mrs. Rogers, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Swink, arrived from Nashville where the FBI had brought a sudden end to her flight with the Nazi officer.
100 years ago — 1921
NEW YORK – Harry L. Bitzberger, alleged Milltown, N.J., bank robber, who sawed his way out of New York’s West Side prison last Monday, was brought back tonight from Providence, R.I., where he was captured while embracing his wife. Mrs. Bitzberger, who had been trailed by detectives from Boston to the Rhode Island city, accompanied her husband to police headquarters. According to detectives who caught Bitzberger, he intended originally to meet his wife at Boston, but noticing several men watching him he decided to meet her in Providence. He knew the car seat Mrs. Bitzberger was in and just before the train pulled out of the Providence Union Station signaled her and she alighted. The detectives waited until Bitzberger kissed his wife.