This Weekend in History

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A lame one, it appears. Maybe they wanted everyone to have plenty of rest before Beale Street Music Fest, with headliner W.C. Handy.

100 years ago: 1907

Memphis will have a dry Sunday today and all gambling dens will be shut down tight if orders given by Capt. Oliver H. Perry and Capt. John Brennan to members of their reliefs are carried out. Just why such orders should suddenly be issued was not explained by the two captains. The order caused consternation among the local saloonists and gamblers.

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