Gloria Fort Smith has a great genealogy department. And they have lots of old records dating into the 1880's. The have a online website and will do some lookups for free. They will most definelty tell if they have newspaper for that time period. All the newspapers they have are on micofilm. And if you need them to do actual research they do it rather cheap. 5.00 an hour I think. LOL, I know all this because I moved about two years ago from there. I live in Little Rock Arkansas now or I would be glad to go do the lookups for you. If I can help you futher please let me know. Gina