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Looking for surviving copies of the Fridley Free Press

Looking for The Fridley Free Press, perhaps the Fridley Patch of its era.

I am the daughter of Richard Bruner and Rosemary Niemann, who started a little newspaper, the Fridley Free Press, in the late 40's or early 50's. 

My dad died this past week, and I was reading some notes he wrote about his time in Fridley when he and my mom ran the paper as a staff of two. Wyman Smith played an important role in Dad's life. He had drafted Dad to become president of the Minneapolis chapter of the American Veterans Commitee, and became his mentor. After my Dad graduated from UofM, Wyman suggested he start a paper in Fridley.

I'm not sure exactly what the dates of publication were. The created the copy in Fridley, and at was printed at the newspaper in White Bear Lake.

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The last issue was a single sheet edition produced from whatever copy they managed to save after a fire burned down their office.

I would very much like to track down any issues of that paper if they exist.

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