Patriotic pets
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25 years ago: 1988
The magnetic power of a name has drawn about $100,000 in donations since 1983 to the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center — contributions that have come from as far as the Australian island of Tasmania. That pull should become even stronger this month with the expected addition of Jack Soden, executive director of Graceland, to the board of the Regional Medical Center at Memphis Foundation. The foundation is a fund-raising group for The Med, which contains the trauma center. Marler Stone, director of development for The Med Foundation, said that by the end of the month, the foundation board should be expanded from seven to about 25 members, including representatives of local big business.
50 years ago: 1963
A word of caution about those noise-making plans for the Fourth of July. The Police Department reminds citizens that the temporary lifting of the anti-noise ordinance from noon until 12:05 p.m. tomorrow does not include the shooting of firearms or fireworks. Ordinances prohibiting both will strictly be enforced Police Chief J.C. Macdonald said yesterday. At 2 at the Overton Park Doughboy statue, the Gavel Club will have a patriotic rally complete with music, marches and speeches. Three $25 bonds will be awarded youngsters coming up with the biggest, the smallest and the most unusual bells. Former Mayor Walter Chandler will be principal speaker.
75 years ago: 1938
In response to a plea by Commissioner Ralph Picard, 150 more women have been given jobs by the WPA repairing clothes at the old Shelby County Workhouse. The women, making a total of 400 of their sex employed at the workhouse, will be paid $10 per week.
100 years ago: 1913
A woman living on South Second, charged by Federal men as being the “Queen of the White Slave traffic in Memphis” was arrested early this morning. Her operations are said to extend into the East and North as well as in states adjoining Tennessee. She is accused of enticing girls from rural districts in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana to her place here on various pretexts of employment.
125 years ago: 1888
Hooker’s Park, on the Prospect Park Dummy Line, is steadily gaining notoriety with the frequency of the scenes of violence enacted there under the influence of corn juice, stale beer, etc. Free fights are common and black eyes, swollen heads and bruised bodies just as common. Squads of deputies are usually there, wielding their clubs, but arrests are seldom made.