Newspapers-The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)-1927 to 1931
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National Library Board CSV catalogue of digitised articles from The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) published between 1927 and 1931, with issue dates, page and article identifiers, and titles. Part of NLB’s open-access newspaper corpus for Singapore history and cultural research. Enquiries: [email protected].
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This dataset is a list of digitised newspaper articles published 70 years ago or longer 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 [email protected]
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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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| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.1 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.1 | Masthead | The Straits Echo Weekly Edition $7B PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 25 PENANG: JANUARY 8, 1927 NO. 1 | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.5 | 3 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.10 | BOUSTEAD & CO., LTD. | BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. Rubber Sales Department The market has shown a slightly firmer undertone since the holidays although London stocks were reported 1058 tons up at the week ending 25th instant and now stand at 48,382 tons. There was firm bidding at the Auction held here yesterday, prices realised for | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.5 | 3 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.11 | NEW YEAR HONOURS | NEW YEAR HONOURS FIVE PEERAGES G.C.M.G. FOR GOVERNOR (British Official Wireless) Rugby, January 1 The New Year Honours list was contained in a special supplement to the London Gazette issued last night. THE OFFICIAL LISTS VISCOUNTS CraijL the Rt. Hon. Sir James, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Sumner, the Rt. | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.5 | 3 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.12 | CHIEF OFFICER CHARGED | CHIEF OFFICER CHARGED Sequel to Incident on the Seistan There was a sequel in the Marine Court on Tuesday afternoon to an incident which occurred on the steamer Seistan the same morning, the chief officer, Mr. J. Macdonald, being charged with being drunk while on duty on the forecastle and | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.6 | 4 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.13.1 | TIN AND RUBBER NOTES | TIN AND RUBBER NOTES (From Out Own Correspondent) London, December 8 Forward rubber sales tables show that in number of cases contracts have be* n placed as far ahead as December 1930 .More than 550 different estates now make comprehensive and c< mplete returns, and additions to the tables are | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.6 | 4 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.14 | POLICE COURT | POLICE COURT Chandu Case In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. C. VV. A. Kennett, the case in which a Chinese 8 charged with unlawful possession of Chandu was mentioned and postponed till to-morrow. Bail of $250 was allowed. Theft A Malay. Ibrahim, pleaded guilty to the theft of | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.6 | 4 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.15 | HONOURS FOR JOHORE) | HONOURS FOR JOHORE) PRESENTATIONS AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE A very large and distinguished gather, ing, fully representative cf official and unofficial society in the Colony and the State of Johore, assembled at Govern, rnent House on Wednesday morning at the invitation of H.E. the Governor and H.H. the Sultan of Johore | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.6 | 4 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.16 | CHINESE CLUB | CHINESE CLUB At the annual general meeting of the hinese Club, McAlister Pvoadi the following gentlemen W’ere elected officebearers President, Mr. Ho Kim Teik (reelected) Hon. Secretary, Mr. Oh Teik Lee (re-elected); Hon. Asst. Secretary, Mr. Choong Lye Hock (re-elected); Hon treasurers, Mr. Ooi Eng Lim and Mr. Lim Lean | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.7 | 5 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.17 | Review of British Trade and Finance in 1926 | Review of British Trade and Finance in 1926 By Hargreaves Parkinson, B. Com. (Manager of the Economist” intelligence Branch) (Exclusive To Straits EchoCopy right) 1926 will be remembered as the year of the costliest industrial dispute in British annals. General indications in the opening months were more propitious than at | (Exclusive To Straits EchoCopy right) |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.8 | 6 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.18 | NEW YEAR’S EVE BALL | NEW YEAR’S EVE BALL A siicce-sful ball was held at the E. and O. Hotel, on Friday last, December 31 192(5. Ilurev ns a large gat lu ring dinner an-l the numbers were considerably in-<-rua < d P»r the dance, some six or seven hundred people participating in the festivities | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.8 | 6 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.19 | F.M.S. FLOODS | F.M.S. FLOODS LOSS OF LIFE SI'LTAN -Of DEMAK I RESCUE Thousands Homeless The Free Press publishes the following report received from Jpoh on Friday With every dejsire to take a sober view’. of the Perak floods the fads now.revealing themselves as isolated places are freed after the week’s silence are | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.1 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.2.1 | Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 | CONTENTS ffl I LEADING ARTICLES I New Yanr Day Tragedies ...8 J b The Ipoh Floods 8 1 Municipal Commission 9 An O.d Friend i Kedah Kailway Tragedy 10 J England 7 j Malayan Rubber Exports 11 gTa A Rubber Review 9 Bishop of London Il <fc 12 Chinese Volunteering | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.8 | 6 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.20 | SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT | SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT ABRIDGE jCOBLiAi’SES ON KEDAH 'LINE Engine Driver and Firemen Killed A very serious.railaccident occurred on Friday on the Kedah line, when an engine and six waggons fully loaded with rice went down at bridge No. 48 between Tasek Glugot and Penang Tungal. The train was bringing rice | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.9 | 7 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.21 | ENGLAND | ENGLAND At this season of the year th® thoughts of all exiles whose lot, is placed in remote places, turn towards England. Dean Inge has recently produced a sincere thesis upon England in all its multiple phases of greatnesses' and weaknesses, and the result is a book that cannot help | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.9 | 7 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.22 | RETIREMENT OF MR. C. N. MAXWELL | RETIREMENT OF MR. C. N. MAXWELL Charleton Neville Maxwell, Commissioner <f Trade and Customs, F.M.S., is retiring to-day after nearly 33 years in the Malayan Civil Service. He was educated at Cheltenham and came out to Kuala Lumpur in 1890, when his father was Resident here. He was in the | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.9 | 7 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.23 | M.A.P. | M.A.P. Mr. A. Miller, Chief Inspector of Police, S.S., has been seconded for service under the Government of Kedah. Lieut. H. F. Waters, M.C., V.D., has been appointed Acting Captain in command of A” Company, M.S.V.R. (Kuala Lumpur). The many friends of Mr. Chan Ah Choo, Hon. Secretary of the | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19300903-1 | 1930-09-03 | 1 | straitsechomail19300903-1.1.3 | 670 | straitsechomail19300903-1.2.6 | Dr. Roma-Amirtham | Dr. Roma-Amirtham ha& succeeded Dr. Lye Nyen Soon at the Seresman General Hospital. | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.10 | 8 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.24 | THE LATE MR. J. D. SAUNDERS | THE LATE MR. J. D. SAUNDERS POPULAR RESIDENT DIES IN HOSPITAL A Link with Early Penang Singapore has lost one of its most familiar figures and one of its oldest and moat popular residents through the death uj Mr. James Dashwood Saunder-», which occurred at the General Hospital whither he | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.10 | 8 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.25 | A SERIOUS ALLEGATION | A SERIOUS ALLEGATION CHINESE GIRL CHAINED UP Protectorate Officer s Experience in the District Court. S ngapore, on Wednesday, before Mr P. A. F. David three Chinese, one man and two worsen, named Li Pow Chin, Chuy Sien Loh, and Ting Yuk Ying respectively, were charged with wrongfully confining a | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.10 | 8 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.26 | H.E. THE GOVERNOR | H.E. THE GOVERNOR His Excellency the Governor, Sir L. N. Guillemard, is du© in Penang at the end of this week from Singapore to spend a much needed holiday up Penang Hill. His Excellency will probably leave Singapore on Wednesday morning, by the Government S. Y. Soabelie, and is expected | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.10 | 8 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.27 | NEW YEAR DAY TRAGEDIES | NEW YEAR DAY TRAGEDIES On Saturday, January 1 a Chinese sailor working on the Japanese steamer Sumatra Maru jumped into the sea whilst his ship was in harbour and was dr< wned. A search was made but without result. The body had not been picked up at noon to-day. ON | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.10 | 8 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.28 | THE IPOH FLOODS | THE IPOH FLOODS INHABITANTS STILL ANXIOUS Relief Fund Opened (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, January 3 It has rained again since last sight and the Kinta River is reported to have risen six feet at Tanjong Rambutan. onsequently another flood is expected m Ipoh during the day. Portions of the | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.11 | 9 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.29 | A RUBBER REVIEW | A RUBBER REVIEW The London correspondent <f the Straits Echo, writing on December 8, points out the big advertisement which rubber is receiving as a result of the Lubber Growers’ Association t< popularise the commod-ty last Christmas. That the propaganda work has succeeded to a large extent is an estab’ished | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.2 | 2 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.3.1 | Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 | SJ th 3k I STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION jAf Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, and contain* th* latest local and States news originally published in th* daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts of the Far Cn fft East, | NA |
| The Straits Echo (Mail Edition) | straitsechomail19270108-1 | 8/1/1927 | 1 | straitsechomail19270108-1.1.11 | 9 | straitsechomail19270108-1.2.30 | M.A.P. | M.A.P. Messi Lim hetig Toil* and Lim in ng Law have ieft for Bangkok on a short holiday trip. The funeral <•; Mr. Jim Guan, the Chinese footballer who was drowned in Tuesday’s flood at Kuala Lumpur, took place on Sunday. The Chief Secretary, F.AI.S., and Mis. Peel will be | NA |
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