The Green Sheet was a four-page section of the '' Milwaukee Journal'' printed on green paper. It was published from the 1910s to 1994, containing

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, the crossword puzzle and other games, celebrity news, local

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, and bits of

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. Perhaps its most prolific contributor was

Ione Quinby Griggs Ione Marie Quinby Griggs (1891-1991) was a crime journalist for the ''Chicago Evening Post'' and subsequently wrote an iconic advice column for the '' Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet'' for over fifty years.

, or "IQG" the advice columnist who wrote over 15,000 "Dear Mrs. Griggs" entries in her fifty-one years on the paper, spanning from November, 1934, until her retirement in 1985. The last Green Sheet was published in the March 19, 1994, edition of the ''Journal'', Milwaukee's afternoon newspaper, about a year before it merged with the morning ''Milwaukee Sentinel''. Features from the Green Sheet briefly appeared in the ''Journal's'' new ''Life'' section before being merged into the ''Sentinels Good Morning section, and taking that name under the new ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''.\ The ''Journal Sentinel'' eventually brought the Green Sheet back on May 25, 2015 ( Memorial Day), and continues to publish it in the Monday through Saturday newspapers. Unlike the former Green Sheet, the section is printed on plain paper with the Green Sheet features printed with a green background.

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