Duncan -

Ancestry.com has several Petersburg Papers listed as searchable dating from
1865 - 1977:

http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/periodicals/news/dblist.aspx?tp=2&p=49

If you can give me more specific dates/names I could do a lookup. Otherwise,
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