This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VIB.2ACE/41.1 Message Board Post: I have been to the office of the Arlington Enterprise quite often. You will not find physical newspapers before about 1900. The paper was in publication before 1900 and there are a few rag-tag years available before this time but the selection is in extremely BAD shape. I am 'told' that the MN. Historical Society in Minneapolis/St.Paul MN has microfich copies of All papers within MN. I have not gone that route yet.