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Newspapers-The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)-1927 to 1931

Data from Feb 2024 to Feb 2025Updated 7 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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NewspapersTheStraitsEchoMailEdition1927to1931.csv (20.1K rows)

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straitsechomail19291002-10.8%
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5/12/19280.9%
1930-04-020.9%
1931-09-020.9%
2/10/19290.8%
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1100.0%
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21.2%
6720.2%
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The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.11straitsechomail19270108-1.2.1MastheadThe Straits Echo Weekly Edition $7B PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 25 PENANG: JANUARY 8, 1927 NO. 1NA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.53straitsechomail19270108-1.2.10BOUSTEAD & CO., LTD.BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. Rubber Sales Department The market has shown a slightly firmer undertone since the holidays although London stocks were reported 1058 tons up at the week ending 25th instant and now stand at 48,382 tons. There was firm bidding at the Auction held here yesterday, prices realised forNA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.53straitsechomail19270108-1.2.11NEW YEAR HONOURSNEW YEAR HONOURS FIVE PEERAGES G.C.M.G. FOR GOVERNOR (British Official Wireless) Rugby, January 1 The New Year Honours list was contained in a special supplement to the London Gazette issued last night. THE OFFICIAL LISTS VISCOUNTS CraijL the Rt. Hon. Sir James, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Sumner, the Rt.NA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.53straitsechomail19270108-1.2.12CHIEF OFFICER CHARGEDCHIEF OFFICER CHARGED Sequel to Incident on the Seistan There was a sequel in the Marine Court on Tuesday afternoon to an incident which occurred on the steamer Seistan the same morning, the chief officer, Mr. J. Macdonald, being charged with being drunk while on duty on the forecastle andNA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.64straitsechomail19270108-1.2.13.1TIN AND RUBBER NOTESTIN AND RUBBER NOTES (From Out Own Correspondent) London, December 8 Forward rubber sales tables show that in number of cases contracts have be* n placed as far ahead as December 1930 .More than 550 different estates now make comprehensive and c&lt; mplete returns, and additions to the tables areNA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.64straitsechomail19270108-1.2.14POLICE COURTPOLICE COURT Chandu Case In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. C. VV. A. Kennett, the case in which a Chinese 8 charged with unlawful possession of Chandu was mentioned and postponed till to-morrow. Bail of $250 was allowed. Theft A Malay. Ibrahim, pleaded guilty to the theft ofNA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.64straitsechomail19270108-1.2.15HONOURS FOR JOHORE)HONOURS FOR JOHORE) PRESENTATIONS AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE A very large and distinguished gather, ing, fully representative cf official and unofficial society in the Colony and the State of Johore, assembled at Govern, rnent House on Wednesday morning at the invitation of H.E. the Governor and H.H. the Sultan of JohoreNA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.64straitsechomail19270108-1.2.16CHINESE CLUBCHINESE CLUB At the annual general meeting of the hinese Club, McAlister Pvoadi the following gentlemen W’ere elected officebearers President, Mr. Ho Kim Teik (reelected) Hon. Secretary, Mr. Oh Teik Lee (re-elected); Hon. Asst. Secretary, Mr. Choong Lye Hock (re-elected); Hon treasurers, Mr. Ooi Eng Lim and Mr. Lim LeanNA
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.75straitsechomail19270108-1.2.17Review of British Trade and Finance in 1926Review of British Trade and Finance in 1926 By Hargreaves Parkinson, B. Com. (Manager of the Economist” intelligence Branch) (Exclusive To Straits EchoCopy right) 1926 will be remembered as the year of the costliest industrial dispute in British annals. General indications in the opening months were more propitious than at(Exclusive To Straits EchoCopy right)
The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)straitsechomail19270108-18/1/19271straitsechomail19270108-1.1.86straitsechomail19270108-1.2.18NEW YEAR’S EVE BALLNEW YEAR’S EVE BALL A siicce-sful ball was held at the E. and O. Hotel, on Friday last, December 31 192(5. Ilurev ns a large gat lu ring dinner an-l the numbers were considerably in-&lt;-rua &lt; d P»r the dance, some six or seven hundred people participating in the festivitiesNA

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_66160334994304e9a21d42ae2e32a5c7"
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. (2024). Newspapers-The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)-1927 to 1931 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 5, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_66160334994304e9a21d42ae2e32a5c7/view

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19 Mar 2024

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NLB (National Library Board)

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