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Newspapers-The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser-1888 to 1889

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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NewspapersTheMalaccaWeeklyChronicleandMercantileAdvertiser1888to1889.csv (1.7K rows, 782.3 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% The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser100.0%	(Null)0.0% malaccawkchronicle18890525-11.4% malaccawkchronicle18880428-11.4% malaccawkchronicle18890803-11.4% malaccawkchronicle18881110-11.3%	(Null)0.0% 25 May 18891.4% 28 April 18881.4% 3 August 18891.4% 10 November 18881.3%	(Null)0.0% 1100.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 116.4% 220.1% 325.9% 436.5%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)100.0%
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.1	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.1	Masthead	THE Malacca Weekly Chronicle AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. MALA.CCA, SATITHDAY.* JANUARY 7. 1888. NO. 1 VOL. I.	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.1	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.2	SATURDAY, JANUARY, 7TH 1888.	SATURDAY, JANUARY, 7TH 1888. The need of a public journal in our Settlement, has been of late much felt. The time perhaps has not yet come when the exigences of public affairs afford an uninterrupted supply of matter lor the Press. But there have been occasions when the existence of	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.1	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.3	HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN MALACCA.	HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN MALACCA. To those who have confidently i v'A.o a Eoeedy termination of our C'ii.j.vitiirc iw ui.'ji he somewhat. iQ-jis* Mirin}' to b<‘ informed of career f previous periodicals in oip" sett lejij.j.L I a. i i; i g ;i,s tin v did for y os I	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.1	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.4.1	Page 1 Advertisements Column 1	THF, WATEUBURY. SERVICES TO-MOKRuW. fcEYLF.SS, Christ Church. KF.YLESB, 7 30 a, m. Matins Litany, and Sermon. KEYLESS, Hyimp 78 and 184. EELTABLF, 6.30 r. M. Evensong and Pennon .RELIABLE, Hymns 76, 79 and-210. RELIABLE, Church op St. Francis Xavier. ACCUR ATE, Solemnity of Epiphany. Double of the Ist Class. ACCI	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.1	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.4.2	Page 1 Advertisements Column 2	Mother Seigel’s OPERATING PILLS, Fop Constipation. Sluggish Liver, &o. f XT NUKE many Linds of cathartic vJ medicines, do not tnakt you feci worse before you leel bi tter. Thru* operation is gem ic, but thorough, aud unattended with disagreeable effects, such as nausea, griping paius, Ac. SfICEYS OPERATING PILES	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.1	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.5.1	Page 1 Miscellaneous Column 1	RESULTS OF THE METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT TIIE GENERAL HOSPITAL OBSERVATORY FROM Ist TO'othJanu.vy, ISS3. j Temperature. Hygrometry. Month St 1 _2 H 7 S C I I nr ,s if* s 5 c erV CN Remarks. and K c E z 2i• I 5 f 5!% 2 a c	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.2	2	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.6	OUR FRUIT CROPS IN 1887.	OUR FRUIT CROPS IN 1887. The usual yield of (Jurhnv-', 'nunujis, «fee in June was ;i verj small one in consequence of the previous dry weallirr, 1 >: 1 1 tin* subsequent wet months j) rod need tin* unprecedented occurranee ol :i second crop in the latter end of the	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.2	2	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.7	SUNGEI UJONG ROAD.	SU NGE I UJON G ROAD. A Chin»'* merchant of AFula i.-en. on liis return from a recent vi <i: to ,Sungei Ujong, gave a most ',untie'tering description ol^the-condition of the ron<l from Linggi to Pen: moan. According; to him it compares v :*y unJiivorahlj, with 11: loads of PoT	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.2	2	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.8	LOCAL.	LOCAL. The Pope's Jubilee was observed at St. Peter’s Church at Bungu Raya on Sunday last, the Ist inst. Alter the early morning service t here were High Mass, Te Drum A Benediction; and at night illuminations. 'l' lie Japanese lanterns at tiie .Parochial House, too, were particularly striking for	NA
The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1	7 January 1888	1	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.1.3	3	malaccawkchronicle18880107-1.2.9	CRICKET.	CRICKET. Malacca r. Selangor. Tli*- following account of a cricket match between the Maiac-en Stdan- j gor clubs was forwarded us by one of our team: i This ma:ch, the first ever played by our < Ticket < lub, away trom Malacca, came off on Mon. ay ami i Tuesday	NA

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Newspaper title	newspaper_title	Text	-	Title of newspaper
Issue id	issue_id	Text	-	Issue ID
Issue date	issue_date	Text	-	Issue date
Edition	edition	Text	-	Edition
Page id	page_id	Text	-	Page ID
Page number	page_number	Text	-	Page number
Article id	article_id	Text	-	Article ID
Article title	article_title	Text	-	Title of article
Article text 1st50words	article_text_1st50words	Text	-	First 50 words of the article text
Contributor	contributor	Text	-	Contributor- an entity that made contributions to the article

Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6ef475f33c2d51eda249b8266a4acca3"
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 Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser-1888 to 1889 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6ef475f33c2d51eda249b8266a4acca3/view

Newspapers-The Malacca Weekly Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser-1888 to 1889

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NewspapersTheMalaccaWeeklyChronicleandMercantileAdvertiser1888to1889.csv (1.7K rows, 782.3 KB)

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