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Newspapers-The Penang Patriot-1898 to 1900

Data from Feb 2024 to Feb 2025Updated 6 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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NewspapersThePenangPatriot1898to1900.csv (3.1K rows, 1.2 MB)

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Issue date
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Edition
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Page id
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Article id
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Article title
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Article text 1st50words
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The Penang Patriot100.0%
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penangpatriot18980629-11.6%
penangpatriot18980601-11.6%
penangpatriot18980608-11.5%
penangpatriot18980720-11.5%
(Null)0.0%
29 June 18981.6%
1 June 18981.6%
8 June 18981.5%
20 July 18981.5%
(Null)0.0%
1100.0%
(Null)0.0%
penangpatriot18980608-1.1.31.2%
penangpatriot18980601-1.1.31.1%
penangpatriot19000420-1.1.30.9%
penangpatriot18980727-1.1.30.9%
(Null)0.0%
18.8%
228.4%
345.9%
416.9%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)99.9%
KOKN LANKA<0.1%
— (M. (J. Watchman<0.1%
W' U. Henderson di Co<0.1%
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.11penangpatriot18980504-1.2.1MastheadTHE PENANG PATRIOT. PUBLISHED WEEKLY EVERY WEDNESDAY FVENING VOL. 11 PENANG. WEDNESDAY MAY 4 1898 fNO 1NA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.11penangpatriot18980504-1.2.2The Yellow Girl that Wink’d at MeThe Yellow Girl that Wink’d at Me our attention I call for a while. lo a m »ng I am goinu to sing you. Its about a pretty yellow girl I met whil8t I was walking, and she threw such a glance nr me; Siie was pretty and as lovelyNA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.11penangpatriot18980504-1.2.3A LIGHT FOR SOME FOLKS.A LIGHT FOR SOME FOLKS. There must he a voluntary element in human aers. In evidence of this position., we miht consider I hat in order to any tiling; bong done for an end. there is r« qniste some sort of knowledge of the end. Whatever aovnt, therefore, acts fromNA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.11penangpatriot18980504-1.2.4Interesting Stories. FROM TAMIL.Interesting Stories. FROM TAMIL. In an ancient town of India, whose name 1 do not recollect, there lived a prince of rare and excellent qualities. Remarried a princess of the Pandyan race. She was a person of middle stature and of masculine courage with dark blue eyes and faircomplexion. ToNA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.11penangpatriot18980504-1.2.5.1Page 1 Advertisements Column 1NOTICE. THE DIAMOND JUBILEE PRESS. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 1897. To perpetuate the Auspicious Diamond Jubilee year of Her most Gracious Majesty’s prosperous and glorious reign. m iT jttSffUfi. Jon works can be undertaken at moderatecharges which mav be ascertained on application to the Manager, MahomedCi'fesim, No. 130 Chulia Street l'euang. THENA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.22penangpatriot18980504-1.2.6OURSELVES.OURSELVES. In point of literary attainments, the Malav Pei&lt;iuBul:t is not now what it was half a century The school master, if we may use the expression is aboard. Every class of uien ia mad after English Education Whatever be the merit or demerit of the Government Educational Code, theNA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.22penangpatriot18980504-1.2.7TELEGRAPHIC EXTRACTS FROM LOCAL AND FOREIGN PAPERS.TELEGRAPHIC EXTRACTS FROM LOCAL AND FOREIGN PAPERS. An American torpedo-des-troyer engaged a Spanish gun boat oft* matanzas Eleven shots were exchanged by the two vessels. After this, the American vessel retired apparently damaged* The four—masted ship shon. amlo ah luu arrived at Liverpool. The repoted capture of the vessel wasNA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.22penangpatriot18980504-1.2.8SUSPECTED OUNBREAK OF PLAGUE IN CALCUTTA.SUSPECTED OUNBREAK OF PLAGUE IN CALCUTTA. On the niifht of tho 16th of April a death suspected to ho from plague, was reported to fid 5 police a* having occurred in Opcllitol.v. near Huberts Street, in the B&gt;w Uaicir rrcti&gt;&gt;n of I’alcutta It was of that of a jzruc**r, orNA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.22penangpatriot18980504-1.2.9The plague in Calcutta.The pl ague in Calcutta. Some uneamie» has ari«en(26 th. April )in Calcutta owing to a number of suspicions cases of fever with glandular swellings suspected to be plague, from which several deaths have occnrred id town with in the .past week, The greatest vigilance is exercised by Health Officers,NA
The Penang Patriotpenangpatriot18980504-14 May 18981penangpatriot18980504-1.1.22penangpatriot18980504-1.2.10Local and General.Loc al and Ge neral. Th* s. s. Snratot\ of the Russian volunteer Fleet, is expected in Singapore 4 to-morrow, on her homeward voyage, having left Naga Sahi on the 26 ultimo, A Sinoitalrsk Jovrnat. the Sdiuleresa proposes that a native regiment should be formed in Ceylon. Th* pupils ofNA

Column legend

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_2d3523431e6788da59b87ad624d571b3"
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-The Penang Patriot-1898 to 1900 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2d3523431e6788da59b87ad624d571b3/view

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Created on

26 Sep 2022

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