Newspapers-Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle-1926 to 1930
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Newspaper title | Issue id | Issue date | Edition | Page id | Page number | Article id | Article title | Article text 1st50words | Contributor |
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| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.1 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.1 | Masthead | Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 1. VOL. LXXXIV. SATURDAY, 2nd JANUARY 1926. PRIOR 15 OENTS. | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.3 | 3 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.10.1 | Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 | j* Jljwß WWIMMwi Major. &fcr Army Club Cigarettes SANDHURST size sO’s in airtight tins 9n jurfie. *tMed iice jxfafc Cavanders Ltd., pioneers of Hygienic Cigarette Packing. Estd. 1775 amuunoi;iUUiiiiiniuiiunnn)iupjkiuuu!iiiHUiummuuwiuuiwiiii:<iiiiiH!i:i;iiiiiiuiiiiiuiuiiii.ii;iiniiii;i:iHiiniiiii A W>swH <Q jjg Let Wincarnis build you up again —it won’t let you down! After the fiu or other illness, | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.3 | 3 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.10.2 | Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 | 1/ART/ns M/* PILLS. I APIOL STEEL R Sureandcertain for all Female I complaints. Every lady should a keep a box in the house. B Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietor MARTIN, Ciramist, Soatkaraptaa, Eaflaai. BOOKS YOU WANT. We cau supply them Buy from u« tod save money. | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.3 | 3 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.10.3 | Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 | '~-‘5 r' (gx dl i Osh Bk i i I I Robinson Pianos Better value than ever. E Specially manufactured for the tropics. E f From $6OO Cash, or Deferred 1 Payments. Robinson Piano Co., j PENANG. I “NERVINUS†(WITH GOLD) A REAL ELIXIR OF LIFE FOR YOUNG AND OLD. | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.11 | THE “RED†CLIDE. | THE “RED†CLIDE. COMMUNISM AND THE “WILD MEN. A DIFFERENCE. By T, L. Scott. It is not always obvious at the outset of a fight for a bad cause that the ultimate result must necessarily be evil but it has been proved beyond doubt that a bad cause has always | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.12 | HAPPY LITTLE ORPHANS. | HAPPY LITTLE ORPHANS. DELIGHTFUL CHRISTMAS TREAT. Penang Convent. 01 New Year’s Day the little orphans of the Convent had their Christmas-Tree treat. F<>r a long time they had been looking forward to it and wondered what surprises they would have. Many had written to Santa Claus long letters containing a | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.13 | RAGGED ROBE. | RAGGED ROBE. EX-MAYORESS COMPLAINS. When Mrs. Catherine Aiderton, Colchester’s first woman mayor, complained to the Town Council of the shabbiness of the mayoral robe, Councillor Cockburn suggested that the Museum Committee should make an offer of the. old robe. Mrs. Aiderton declared that when she attended functions in other towns | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.14.1 | OMNIBUS INCIDENT. | OMNIBUS INCIDENT. [To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette J Sir, —I have read your editorii’s as well as the evidence and finding of the Municipal Omnibus Incident and regret to observe that a common conductor can say to a lady, If you were a man I would pull you | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.15 | NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES | NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES HAPPY GATHERING AT E. AND O. Over seven hundred people joined in the festivities at the E, and O. on New Year’s Eve and five hund-ed of them sat down to the dinner. Crackers were served out to the diners and novelty hats distributed tn clothe dignity | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19260102-1 | 2/1/1926 | 1 | pinangazette19260102-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19260102-1.2.16 | TRAINING NOTES | TRAINING NOTES IMPRESSIONS FROM THE COURSE. The race course was too hard for spirited galloping this morning, and trainers for the most part wisely rested their charges. Tigablas, looking in fi Ue trim, was walked round chafing his rein but Son of Erin, with Syde Abi up, made joyful work | NA |
Column legend
| Title | Column name | Data type | Unit of measure | Description |
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| 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
This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the first 100 rows from this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the
.import requests base_url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search" url = base_url + "?resource_id=d_5dcdd526f0628d4761a5e60b8ba1de79" response = requests.get(url) print(response.json())
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