While indexing obits and marriages from the Norfolk Virginian, I notice  
something that really started to bother me, especially after going day by  day 
through 40 years of newspaper, one thing was extremely apparent,
 
while in the beginning I thought it was ok, that the main focus of the  
paper was the City Of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and with the occasional  mention 
of Norfolk County...... I was accepting at first......
 
but then as other areas of the regions began to get their own columns  
Berkley, Brambleton, Elizabeth City, Bertie, even Petersburg and  
Nansemond/Suffolk developed a daily column,.
 
What was my pet peeve? Princess Anne County was completely ignored, unless  
their was a trial going on, it never had it's own column in over 40 years 
of  newspaper....... While Virginia Beach received an occasional mention, it  
never had a column either, 
 
then I found this:  
 
In the Feb 12 1896

 
Edition of the Norfolk Virginian

 
under BRAMBLETON

 
it says:

This branch office has received a copy of the PRINCESS ANNE CHRONICLE
a four page sheet of which Messrs. J.E. WEST and Benjamin Rowson are  
editors and published at 
Kempsville Va. It is published every Friday and is a newsy and interesting  
weekly.

 
So  my question is Does anyone know if any copies of the Princess Anne  
Chronicle still exist? 
My local Library would LOVE to have copies.
 
Kristina 
 
 
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