Newspapers-Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle-1921 to 1925
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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 | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.1 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.1 | Masthead | Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY ESTABLISHED 1333 No. 1. VOL. LXXIX MONDAY, 3rd JANUARY, 1921. PRICE 15 CENTS | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.10 | Japanese Immigrants. | Japanese Immigrants. SENATOR LODGE’S SUGGESTION. Washington, December 31. American papers have lately been giving attention to the possibility of a combination between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, with the United States, with a view to maintaining a united front against Japanese immigration. The idea appears to have originated | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.11 | Armaments. | Armaments. AMERICAN DECLARATION. London, December 30. The Daily Mail New York correspondent says Senator McCumber, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, after an interview with Senator Harding, declared that both military and naval expenditure mu tbe curtailed. He was satisfied that a way can be found to agreement among the | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.12 | WRANGEL’S REMNANT. | WRANGEL’S REMNANT. PLIGHT ON GALLIPOLI, [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, December 31. The Daily Chronicle’s Athens correspondent says the Greek Government is being seriously embarrassed by the remnants of General Wrangel’s starving, typhus-stricken army in Gallipoli, armed with 10.000 rifles. Mu iny is feared, Tne Greeks have cordoned off the peninsula, aud | [Reuter’s Telegrams.] |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.13 | International Court of Justice. | International Court of Justice. London, December 30. The necessary number of nations, namely 22, have signed bhe protocol providing for the establishment of the permanent court of international justice. Portugal, Switzerland, Denmark and S*d Salvador have also signed the protocol for compulsory adjudication. | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.14 | American Economy. | American Economy. Washington, December 30. The public demand for economy was reflected in the treatment accorded the Miscellaneous Estimates Bill, by the Committee of the House of Representatives, which approved a to’al of $421,000,000 less than the sum asked by the Government Departments. The largest reduction is $147,000,000, in the | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.15 | For European Relief. | For European Relief. a hoover banquet. New Yoik, December 30 A banquet, organised by Mr Hoover, at which each guest paid £2OO for a simple dinner of beef steak, bread and cocoa, resulted in contributions of over $2,000.000 to the European Relief Fund. General Pershing, in a speech at the | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.16 | Carrier Companies. | Carrier Companies. PRESIDENT WILSON’S ACTION. Washington, December 31. President Wilson vetoed the joint Congressional resolution designed to tu-pend the provision of the Clayton Act prohibi<ing carrier concerts from having any dealings with any other concern having an interlocking directorate with a carrier company. | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.17 | School of Oriental Studies. | School of Oriental Studies. London, December 30. The report of the governing body of the School of Oriental Studies in London, for the eleven months ending July 31, shows a roll of 539 students, of whom 145 are women, compared with 216 and 116 respectively last year. Instruction is given | NA |
| Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle | pinangazette19210103-1 | 3/1/1921 | 1 | pinangazette19210103-1.1.4 | 4 | pinangazette19210103-1.2.18 | Murder in Kuala Lumpur. | Murder in Kuala Lumpur. ‘M L.†Triad Society Crime. A most dastardly mu-der was committed in Birch Road, Kuala Lumpur, on Mondav night, when four men entered a dwelling and stabbed to death a young man and serioudy injured his father, who is reported to be dying. The house, which | – ‘M L.†|
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 |
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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_ccd91859f4d954aaeb79930bb177caff" response = requests.get(url) print(response.json())
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