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Newspapers-Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register-1827 to 1831

Data from Feb 2024 to Feb 2025Updated 5 months ago

NLB (National Library Board)

This dataset is a list of digitised out-of-copyright newspaper articles from the National Library, Singapore.

These materials present a valuable resource on Singapore’s history, art and culture, digitised as part of an endeavour to preserve and provide better access to resources located within the library to enable users to explore and discover these resources.

For enquiries, please email ref@nlb.gov.sg

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NewspapersSingaporeChronicleandCommercialRegister1827to1831.csv (2.3K rows, 992 KB)

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singchronicle18310714-11.3%
singchronicle18310106-11.3%
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16 June 18311.7%
2 June 18311.5%
14 July 18311.3%
21 July 18311.3%
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1100.0%
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141.6%
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321.0%
416.5%
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Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270104-14 January 18271singchronicle18270104-1.1.11singchronicle18270104-1.2.1MastheadTHURSDAY, January 4tb, 1827. Public Notifications appearing in this Register, and signed by the proper Authorities, are to he considered as official. NO. 73 SINGAPORE CHRONICLE.NA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270104-14 January 18271singchronicle18270104-1.1.11singchronicle18270104-1.2.2SINGAPORESINGAPORE 4 JANUARY 1826. The Lalla Rookh from England, Madras, Penang, arrived here yesterday. Yesterday our long expected Resident, Mr. Prince, landed from the Lalla Rookh, under the usual salute. Six hundred Madras troops had arrived at Penang to relieve the 65th Bengal Native Infantry. The Bengal troops, now here,NA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270104-14 January 18271singchronicle18270104-1.1.11singchronicle18270104-1.2.3.1Page 1 Advertisements Column 1Advertisements Mr. John Francis most respectfully begs leave to inform the Public that he has taken into Partnership Peter Francis Douwe, and the business from Ist. January will be carried on under the firm of John Francis Co. and every attention shall be paid to those Gentlemen who may visitNA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270104-14 January 18271singchronicle18270104-1.1.22singchronicle18270104-1.2.4ENGLAND.ENGLAND. By the Lalla Rookh we have received English Papers to the 18th of July, and a briet precis of 'their contents may be acceptable to such of our vea tiers as have not access to fuller sources oi information. The late stagnation of trade is a subject of greatNA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270104-14 January 18271singchronicle18270104-1.1.22singchronicle18270104-1.2.5SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES.SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES. The Papers have recently announced the death of Sir Stamford Raffles. He was not of the order of men to he dismissed with a brief notice, l ew men, at his time oflife, have descended to the grav who have done their country so much service, andNA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270104-14 January 18271singchronicle18270104-1.1.33singchronicle18270104-1.2.6CORRDSPONDENCE.CORRDSPONDENCE. Calcutta llth Sept. 1826 Mr. Editor, \ou have been in the practice of stating in your Price Current that the weight of the Gold Bunka is 712 grains troy, but having occasiojn to know from my commercial transactions with your Settlement that tue usage of your Trade is otherwiseNA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270104-14 January 18271singchronicle18270104-1.1.33singchronicle18270104-1.2.7SHIPPING.S HIPPING. Arrivals and SSepariures* ARRIVED. DECEMBER. 21st Portuguese Bug Espcranca, A. J. Barradas from Macao 52th December. 22:id British Ship Pascoa, H. Cathroe from China 14th December. Br.tish Ship Corsair, D. II. Petree from Manilla 15th December. 25th British Ship Mediterranean, J. Stephens from Calcutta 29th November. 20th BritishNA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270118-118 January 18271singchronicle18270118-1.1.11singchronicle18270118-1.2.1MastheadSINGAPORE CHRONICLE. NO. 74 THURSDAY, January 18th, 1827. Public Notifications appearing in this Register, and signed by the proper Authorities, are to be considered as official.NA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270118-118 January 18271singchronicle18270118-1.1.11singchronicle18270118-1.2.2No. 12. GOVERNMENT. NOTIFICATION.No. 12. GOVERNMENT. NOTIFICATION. The public are hereby informed that all Persons holding Lands on the Island of Singapore, under Grants issued by Sir T.S. Raffles, Lieut, Governor, or under authority of Location Tickets received from the late Resident Mr. Crawfurd, and who have complied with the conditions of theNA
Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Registersingchronicle18270118-118 January 18271singchronicle18270118-1.1.11singchronicle18270118-1.2.3NOTICENOTICE THE FRIENDS OF THE LATE SIR T. S. RAFFLES, anxious to commemorate the Services which he has rendered this Settlement, beg leave respectfully to inform the European and Native Inhabitants of Singapore that having received permission to erect a monument on Government Hill to his Memory a Subscription listNA

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Newspaper titlenewspaper_titleText-Title of newspaper
Issue idissue_idText-Issue ID
Issue dateissue_dateText-Issue date
EditioneditionText-Edition
Page idpage_idText-Page ID
Page numberpage_numberText-Page number
Article idarticle_idText-Article ID
Article titlearticle_titleText-Title of article
Article text 1st50wordsarticle_text_1st50wordsText-First 50 words of the article text
ContributorcontributorText-Contributor- an entity that made contributions to the article
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_0d77d715e4db728f806bd01f7ba0371a"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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National Library Board. (2022). Newspapers-Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register-1827 to 1831 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 5, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_0d77d715e4db728f806bd01f7ba0371a/view

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26 Sep 2022

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