Newspapers-Singapore Standard-1950 to 1953
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.
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Sample data
Newspaper title | Issue id | Issue date | Edition | Page id | Page number | Article id | Article title | Article text 1st50words | Contributor |
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| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.1 | Singapore Labour Party In Election Campaign Urges Be Civic Conscious' | Singapore Labour Party In Election Campaign Urges Be Civic Conscious' Standard Staff Reporter A CALL to the public to be civic conscious and show an Interest m their own welfare by registering their names m the electoral roll was made by the President of the Labour Party, Mr. lim Yew | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.2 | Untitled | »:^w^gyjOi f^ ii hi 3mm:mw*xmmzzi THE FOUR Asian Assistant Police Superintendents who left Singapore by air yesterday on a six-months training course at Ryton-On-Dunsmore Police College, England. They are (left to right): Messrs. Thnrml Rajah. AnancU Rajah, J. Le Cain and Eu Cheow Ean*. | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.3 | Taxi Owners Vote 'No Confidence' In Colony Councillors | Taxi Owners Vote 'No Confidence' In Colony Councillors SINGAPORE'S taxi-owners voted "no confidence* 1 m Municipal Commissioners and Legislative Councillors at a meeting yesterday when they undertook to launch a campaign for more voters to elect, m future, commissioners and councillors who will support their cause. President of the Singapore | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.4 | Four Involved In Accidents | Four Involved In Accidents Standard Staff Reporter Four people were involved In motor accidents In Singapore yesterday. Nona was seriously injured. | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.5 | Newsmen Leave For War Front | Newsmen Leave For War Front Standard Staff Reporter Seven foreign correspondents left Singapore by air yesterday to cover the war front m Korea. They Included Mr. Lan Morrison (London Times Chief Correspondent m the Frr East); Mr. L Hudson (ReutersA.A.P.); Messrs. H. Magee and S. Simmons (Picture Post) and Mr. | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.6 | They Nearly Missed Boat | They Nearly Missed Boat The most luxuriously equipped troopship m the world, the twin-funnelled. IR. OOO-ton Empire OrwelL nearly left some civilian passengers on land and certainly disappointed quite 8 few friends of other passengers who were on their way to Singapore docks yesterday afternoon to see the ship off | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.7 | Polls More Popular With Women | Polls More Popular With Women Standard Staff Reporter MORE Singapore women this year have responded to the all-out drive for more eligible voters on both the Legislative Council and Municipal Commission electoral rolls Mr. M. Ponnuduray, Assistant Supervisor of Elections, said that when he opened a batch last week 45 | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.8 | Sunday-Off Makes Singapore Shop Employees Unhappy | Sunday-Off Makes Singapore Shop Employees Unhappy Standard Staff Reporter ABOUT .1,000 shops m Singapore yesterday complied with the new Weekly Holidays Ordinance which came into force on Saturday. This was the first Sunday on which so many shops put up their shutters. Many workers did not know what to do | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.9 | Americans Do Not Know Why They Like Hot Dogs | Americans Do Not Know Why They Like Hot Dogs Standard Stall Reporter Amerirans rrat'e for hot dogs. But they just cannot tell you why f'tcy litce tkt i. 7 approcclicd an American W)io rri.t m thr act of thtffttlQ m tiro of the IJtOQ hot dej"? espcciaVy flntrn Dttt here | NA |
| Singapore Standard | singstandard19500703-1 | 3-Jul-50 | 1 | singstandard19500703-1.1.2 | 2 | singstandard19500703-1.2.10 | New Feeder Schools | New Feeder Schools Standard Staff Reporter Three new schools will open m Singapore today to admit more than a thousand boys and girls for Primary I to Standard IV classes. They are the Tanjong Rhu Boys' School. Balesticr Koad Boys' School and Bak.-ticr Road Girls' School. These schools are part | 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_d35d2d0a53b43d45fa58286dc0e23fd2" response = requests.get(url) print(response.json())
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