25 years ago — 2001
LITTLE ROCK ‒ New York's bagel shops, delicatessens and pizzerias usually can satisfy former President Bill Clinton's penchant for good eats, but there's nothing like home cooking. In a throwback to the days when he ate barbecued raccoon in Gillet, Ark., raw oysters in Slovak and catfish everywhere, Clinton is expected to chow down on fried frog legs Friday at a political fundraiser across the river from the Capitol he once called home.
50 years ago — 1976
Alex Haley's "Roots," which finished its serialization in The Commercial Appeal yesterday, will become a 12-part television feature in January. Termed by the David L. Wolper Company, which is producing the miniseries, as "television's most ambitious project," the story of
Haley's obsessive search for his roots will boast a cast that sounds like a TV Who's Who.
75 years ago — 1951
Many auto owners are going to be sorry next March. That's when they will have to stand in line a good long time to purchase an auto title, and then wait another long time in line to get 1952 state tags. John McGoldrick, county court clerk, repeated again yesterday his urgent plea to car owners to get their titles now, not wait until the inevitable March deadline rush is under way. Mr. McGoldrick said approximately 30,000 owners have bought their titles since July 1, when the law, making it necessary to have a title before license plates can be purchased, became effective.
100 years ago — 1926
Seven thousand gallons of corn mash in 500-gallon vats were destroyed late yesterday by Sheriff Will S. Knight, who led a posse of deputies on a wildcat still on the Ensley farm, less than a mile from the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad. The still had been in operation for two weeks and was known to have been running Saturday night. Sheriff Knight's information was that the wildcat operators would be on the job yesterday afternoon, but nobody was around.
This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: What was happening in Memphis history on Oct. 4? A look back through the years
