MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1997
JACKSON, Miss. – The University of Mississippi is using a record $60 million financial gift to establish a premier institute for international studies, officials said Thursday. The Croft Institute for International Studies at the main campus of Ole Miss in Oxford will begin enrolling students as early as next fall and serve as a nucleus for studies ranging from business to law to science and focusing on Mississippi’s trading partners in Asia, Latin America and Europe.
50 years ago — 1972
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. announced yesterday a planned 17-million-dollar expansion of its Memphis brewery, which would rank the plant alongside the main brewery in Milwaukee. The new addition would increase the Memphis plant’s production capacity almost 50 percent, from 4.4 million barrels a year to 6.2 million barrels.
75 years ago — 1947
Humes’ bid for an undefeated prep football season was rudely rejected last night before 19,500 by a determined band of South Side Scrappers, who pushed the Tigers around Crump Stadium to the stunning tune of 20-0. 100 years ago — 1922
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Henry O. Gray, sheriff of Jefferson County, today offered his personal check for $250 as a reward for information that would lead
to the arrest of the thief who entered the sheriff’s office and in the presence of more than 30 deputies stole the purse of Miss Emma Franz. Miss Franz was one of the more than 30 deputies. The purse contained $3.50.
125 years ago — 1897
CHARLESTON, Miss. – Last night the
city council held an enthusiastic meeting and passed strict quarantine regulations, the provisions of which admit of no person out of the county entering the corporation limits. The people of Oakland are permitted to enter when in possession of the proper health certificate.