In a message dated 6/13/03 11:49:01 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > What I am looking for is the obit of my husbands grandfather. He died in > the > Juvenile Ward of the Hennepin County Jail June 20, 1940. I was wondering if > > the obit gave more details. I know he was a Deputy Sheriff for Hennepin > County. If I knew what newspapers and there address that were in print at > that > time and still exist I could write them. Jan The newspaper of the time would have been the Minneapolis Tribune and/or the Minneapolis Star, I believe. The Trib was traditionally the morning paper (and the Sunday paper) and the Star was evening. Eventually they combined and are now the Star Tribune. BUT... the newspaper office does not maintain an archive of newspapers, they are all kept at the Minnesota History Center. they have all news papers published in Minnesota, most from the very first publication, on microfilm. You should be able to contact them and ask them to make a copy of the obituary for a small fee. Jo Hogle