Memphis Press-Scimitar

[2] At the time of its closure, the Press-Scimitar had lost a third of its circulation in 10 years and was down to daily sales of 80,000 copies.

Young, a journalist from Ohio brought down by local business interests looking for a voice to speak to the stranglehold that E. H. "Boss" Crump had on city government, employment, and contracts.

[6] It was partly owned by Memphis merchant tycoon Napoleon Hill who commissioned the Scimitar Building in 1902.

[1][7] Hill, known as Memphis' original "merchant prince",[8] lived on the other side of Madison Avenue in a mansion on the site where the Sterick Building is now.

In the 2004 movie The Ladykillers, during the basement scene where Tom Hanks's character Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr describes forming the crew for the heist, he references having posted an ad in the Memphis Scimitar, which the would-be thieves responded to.