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Newspapers-Straits Mail-1894 to 1895

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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NewspapersStraitsMail1894to1895.csv (701 rows, 281.1 KB)

Newspaper title
Text
Issue id
Text
Issue date
Text
Edition
Text
Page id
Text
Page number
Text
Article id
Text
Article title
Text
Article text 1st50words
Text
Contributor
Text
(Null)0.0%
Straits Mail100.0%
(Null)0.0%
straitsmail18950105-16.1%
straitsmail18941231-15.6%
straitsmail18950110-15.4%
straitsmail18950122-15.4%
(Null)0.0%
5 January 18956.1%
31 December 18945.6%
10 January 18955.4%
22 January 18955.4%
(Null)0.0%
1100.0%
(Null)0.0%
straitsmail18950105-1.1.32.4%
straitsmail18941231-1.1.22.3%
straitsmail18950110-1.1.32.3%
straitsmail18950105-1.1.22.1%
(Null)0.0%
116.3%
235.4%
331.8%
416.5%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)100.0%
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.11straitsmail18941224-1.2.1MastheadTHE STRAITS MAIL. No. 1 SINGAPORE, lIOXIIAY, DriCEMBEfI 84, 189* P e TONA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.11straitsmail18941224-1.2.2.1Page 1 Advertisements Column 1pj LAB \\D OKIES f KAM XAVIGAT! S OOMPASI Ofvick t\*i -nil' GoDOWKB^-.\fa flafhsw mail steamers may I utwarda an. l 1 > rah la oa tbe folio*- "wasd** Doßswaaai B t M ij Js Siara i 2') ]s. 7 9 n fl 4 I Itoattta I .na» X** BNA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.11straitsmail18941224-1.2.2.2Page 1 Advertisements Column 2EQUITABLE Li .v. .•s B [feTTI OF rUE I'M ri!) STATBd T!i! K m >,;.-. origißated tkc Toa iac pi in Aa war* t The I i I itii Policviba uu i pro il3 i btcfc -Nr lb li mij inther nl.si 'l it-'lv Minis. 1 enlo I an mNA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.11straitsmail18941224-1.2.2.3Page 1 Advertisements Column 3OCEAS STKAaISHIP OOMPAHT. I r^ 1"• l anpanv tteamers dupatchi.'.l frota Liverpool ouMa-M for ihe Strait* d 01 in and rrom Shaa i omewar aatioa lot Ural and tlinrd ciaaa passeasero, i eawryioaj a >nr|^eoo and Btewaiueos, Tbroogb Billh ».f E.v.;m'_r ay inairifor ail China, Japan, M anil a, 8NA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.11straitsmail18941224-1.2.2.4Page 1 Advertisements Column 4CHARTE! ED BANK OF INDIA Al STKALIA VND CHINA IKCOEI iTBI Bl EOl AL '< I 7ITAL i- h. 'B•:; I S m. Buro tfoti i i (Han vwd. fLa\N BAJTht] BS Hi i \N h E I I Ei Xl i TH. i 12 umir .nuuoi. n B INA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.22straitsmail18941224-1.2.3The Straits Mail. Singapore, Monday, 24th Dec. 1894.The Straits Mail. Singapore, Monday, 24th Dec. 1894. UPLAXATO&Y. M The Straits Mail" is t stablished to supply what ;s believed to ben want in Singapore vis a respectab I eonducfted En^ r lis;h N^ewapaper at a in ac moderate rale than prevails now. ItsMMll any disparagement to the twoNA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.22straitsmail18941224-1.2.4THE SPORTING CLUB MEETING.THE SPORTING CLUB MEETING. Thr "inactive" members, which means about nine tenths of the membership of the Club, il 4 inactive n means nof. being a racehorse owner, are under an obligaiion to Major MaCallum for the spirited manner in which he led the opposition to the increase in theNA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.22straitsmail18941224-1.2.5Golf.Golf. Is Mn si no ip »r-' F-mimm; e.n;!.-> Penang has won hv 2 h lleS< The details so jar as ktlOWIl are tha i (Jr-aiT tinishe I S ho] -s do am. and (Jillespie o nn, the otho*s m/ eV'-n Tin reams wre arrange! M follow s. in aYeNA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.22straitsmail18941224-1.2.6MARINE CLUB BALL.MARINE CLUB BALL. Tbe last Marine Club Ball was such an immense success, "one ot the functions of tbe aaajaaaj that the incinbei's havo iai sided to make the event an annual one The next ball has been bad to takeplane on Friday 05th January in the Town Hall andNA
Straits Mailstraitsmail18941224-124 December 18941straitsmail18941224-1.1.22straitsmail18941224-1.2.7EXCHANGE COMPENSATIONEXCHANGE COMPENSATION Ihe follow ing r, .*i a ill ta moved bj 11 1 J, Pre* r. the bsmhbbbl Bl P till 3 >1 lie M .M.i v I'■ BBfIBBBi BH>|fe?rfl o o-' i'M a OB ihe? 27th IBSSa 'i'!i •a I IS il ISSBB I <frl »ni Irate 1NA

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_50251bdaf3c3e076cccb960a605726c5"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

National Library Board. (2022). Newspapers-Straits Mail-1894 to 1895 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 5, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_50251bdaf3c3e076cccb960a605726c5/view

About this dataset

Contact

ref@nlb.gov.sg

Created on

26 Sep 2022

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

NLB (National Library Board)

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