Originally Posted by
fess67
Photoshop can certainly do it and a quick Google search produces many tutorials and articles.
Aside from any possible copyright infringement of taking the photos from the newspaper, I would first manage the MIL's expectations of quality. My rule of thumb is that if you start with a poor quality image then you are usually going to get a poor quality result, even with good processing skills. A newspaper quality image further degraded by scanning is going to provide a good image for memories to put on Facebook and the like, but not so good if you want to enlarge and frame it.
That's not to say you should not try it, just manage the expectations.