The Library of Congress has a searchable database of newspapers from across the country. This is what they say about it on their web site http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : "View newspaper pages from 1860 to 1922 from the following states: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington." Keep in mind that lots of news articles were reprinted in other geographic areas, so it's not impossible to find items of local interest. Finding articles about your own family outside the area where they lived is more likely if they were involved in something tragic, strange or funny. I use "Weakley County" as a search term because there is no other of that name in the country. But I suggest you use "Dresden, Tenn." or "Dresden, Tennessee" or whatever other city and state name that you need. They didn't abbreviate state names the way we do now, so do it old style. Peggy M. T. In a message dated 1/31/2011 8:15:09 A.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: A reminder that the Tennessee State Library and Archives maintains a list of all known newspapers accessible on their Website. They are not searchable, but it is easy to identify what papers from any one time are available.