Here is the list of newspapers on microfilm that can be borrowed on Inter-library loan from the State Historical Society of Missouri that they gave me for Newton Co. The best newspaper I found for obits and local gossip for Racine and Spurgeon and the other little communities before 1900 (which is the time frame I work in) is Neosho's Miner and Mechanic. Deb Hallecook MISSOURI NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM AT THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI NEWTON COUNTY DIAMOND: Diamond News (w) Oct 6, Nov 10-Dec 8, 1932 Feb 2-Mar 2, 16-Apr 6, 20, May 18, Jun 1, 29, Jly 20, 27, 1933 Jan 11, 18, Feb 8, May 3-17, Jun 28-Dec 18, 1934 Feb 7-28, Apr 4-Jly 25, Aug 15, 29, Sep 6, 1935 Dec 28, 1944 Jan 4-18, Feb1-22, Mar 1-May 31, Jun 14, 21, Jly 5-Sep 20, Oct 11, 25, Nov 8, 29-Dec 27, 1945 Feb 10, 24-Apr 30, May 9-Jun 13, 27, Jly 11-Oct 3, 17, 24, Nov 7-21, Dec 5-26, 1946 Jan 2-30, Feb 13, 1947 Jan 4, 1951-Jan 19, 1961 Newton County News (w) Jan 26, 1961-Oct 27, 1966 GRANBY: Miner (w) Oct 4, 1873-Sep 26, 1874 Sep 16, 1876 Miner (w) Feb 21, 1913-Feb 27, 1914 Miner-Missourian (w) Apr 14, 1916-Dec 21, 1920 Missourian (w) Mar 6, 1914-Apr 7, 1916 News-Herald (w) Dec 17, 1925 Feb 4-Dec 30, 1943 Newton County News (w) Jan 6, 1972-Jly 30, 1998 Newton County News and Granby Record (w) May 15, 1968-Dec 31, 1970 Newton County News-Record (w) Jan 7-Dec 30, 1971 Record (w) Sep 14, 1967-May 8, 1968 NEOSHO: Daily Democrat Jly 19-Sep 26, 1905 Jan 28, 1906-Dec 31, 1914 Jly 23, 1915-Dec 31, 1924 Jly 3, 1925-Dec 31, 1934 Jly 1, 1935-Dec 31, 1941 Jly 1, 1944-Nov 30, 1952 Free Press (w) Oct 9, 1903-Sep 30, 1904 Graphic and Miner Mechanic (w) Nov 29, 1963-Sep 16, 1966 Miner and Mechanic (d) Sep 23, 1879-Mar 25, 1880 Miner and Mechanic (w) Oct 25, 1879-Oct 2, 1880 Oct 8, 1881-Jan 12, Mar 1, 1884-Dec 27, 1902 Jly 4, 1903-Jan 6, 1961 Sep 23, 1966-Dec 31, 1971 Miner Mechanic and Graphic News and Picture Weekly Jan 13, 1961-Nov 22, 1963 Daily News Dec 1, 1952-present Newton County News (w) Nov 3, 1966-May 9, 1968 Aug 5, 1998-present Times (w) Jan 6, 1870-Aug 21, 1884 May 20, 1886-Oct 31, 1889 Jan 9, 1890-Jly 23, 1953 NEWTONIA: Newton County News (w) Aug 14, 1890-Jun 27, 1907 SENECA: Dispatch (w) May 27, 1898-Jun 8, 1900 Hustler (w) Jan 3, 1907-Aug 27, 1908 News-Dispatch (w) Jan 3, 1963-present