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Newspapers-Malaya Tribune-1914 to 1918

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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NewspapersMalayaTribune1914to1918.csv (196.9K rows, 78.1 MB)

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Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.1MastheadTHE MALAYA TRIBUNE. r. t* No. 2 SINGAPORE. FRIDAY JANUARY 2, 1914 Price. 5 Cents The Malaya Tribune. SINGAPORE, JANUARY 2, 1914.NA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.2Telegrams.Telegrams. Chancellor and Dukes. MR. GEORGES SCATHING REPLY CRITIC. INTERESTING PSYCHOLOGY (Renter's Service.) j LONDON, Jan L Mr. Lloyd George has published a rejoinder to the Duke df Sutherland's criticism. The Right Hon. gentleman says, The contrast between the value of 5s. oci per acre of the whole land andNA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.3Boxing Championship.Boxing Championship. (Reuters service.) j i London, Jan. 1 The middle-weight boxing championship of the world has beeTaecided in the Stadium at Sy Te?e y gVams from the city state tb Jthousand persons were present when f America met Dave Smith. He floored him three tvmesjin the first round andNA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.4Peace in Ireland.Peace in Ireland. (Renter 9 Service.) LONDON, Jan 1. The Archbishop of Canterbury ;n hU New Year Message recommti* a f0rpCaCC in Ireland.NA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.5Olmypic Games.Olmypic Games. {Reuters Service.) LONDON, Jan L The Olympic. Games Fund .n England is being po 0^,, ported. Up to date only li,ooo out of the 100,000 sterling asked for has been collected. jNA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.6New Year’s Honours.New Year’s Honours. I (Renter's Service J LONDON, Jan. 1. The New Year's Honours List includes thejollowing names*:— Viscount—the Right Hon.* James Brffce, ex-Ambassador at Washington. j BARONS. Sir Rufus Isaacs, Lord Chief; Justice, and Mr. Alexander Ure, Lord Advocate of Scotland. Sir Charles Alfred Cripps, Attorney General to theNA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.7UntitledThe chief of police of Canton, in a determined effort to v g set from Canton and ite «w free 500 young girls Kepi <• In the homes of Canton.NA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.8VEDRINES’ GREAT FLIGHT.VEDRINES’ GREAT FLIGHT. Through Darkest Africa by Aeroplane. (Reuter’s Service) London jan. i. j Paris telegrams state thfct ibe Aerial League has Mqujjted Vedrines to continue his tligflt I from Cairo to the Cape. He will probably go Wia the Nile, Uganda, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Quiiiinape, Beira, Delagoa Bay, and,NA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.9Jerusalem Astonished.Jerusalem Astonished. FIRST AEROPLANE FLIES OVER ANCIENT QTTY. (Reuters Service.) LONDON, Jan. 1, 1914. 1 For the first time in it*- history] Jerusalem has seen an aeroplane. Telegrams from the city say that the aviator Bomiief has arrived' there on tb*i first aeroplane ever seen in thtf ancient Jewish capital.NA
Malaya Tribunemaltribune19140102-12 January 19141maltribune19140102-1.1.11maltribune19140102-1.2.10Great Battle in Mexico.Great Battle in Mexico. REBELS WINNING IN A SEVERE FIGHT. (Reuters Service.) London, Jan L A big battle is in progress in Mexico. Five thousand Mexican rebels are opposed to four thousand Federal* at Ajinaga. Filiating has continued for thirty-six hours and is in favour of the rebels, although theNA

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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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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_99cf3841d550550458ba7b818ac4b0f9"
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-Malaya Tribune-1914 to 1918 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 5, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_99cf3841d550550458ba7b818ac4b0f9/view

About this dataset

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Created on

27 Sep 2022

Licence

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

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NLB (National Library Board)

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