Today in History revisits the Wednesday, August 24, 1949 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on a missing Minnesota boy. In August 1949, a massive search effort was launched near McGregor, Minnesota, for 3-year-old Larry Coleman, who vanished while picking pine cones with his siblings on his grandparents’ farm, about 50 miles west of Duluth. The boy became separated and disappeared into the surrounding dense woods and swamplands of the Savanna State Forest.

McGREGOR, MINN. — (AP story as published by the Grand Forks Herald on August 24, 1949) —Fears increased Tuesday, August 23, 1949, that a mist-shrouded northern Minnesota forest had become the tomb of little Larry Coleman.

Undaunted searchers, however, pressed an “inch-by-inch” hunt of five square miles of dense wo

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