Datasets:
identifier stringlengths 34 40 | word_count int64 1 15.2k | text stringlengths 0 89.2k |
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AG/1879/AG_18790930/MM_01/0001.xml | 2,490 | The Ashburton Guardian.
COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND SPORTING RECORDER.
VbL. %—No. 2
ASHBURTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1879
Price—TWOPENCE
Auctioneers and Cbmmisssion Agents ALFRED HARRISON, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AGENT. ETC. SALES, Sales of Stock, Mer chandise,' Furniture and Effects, also Pigs, Fowls/ and General P... |
AG/1879/AG_18790930/MM_01/0002.xml | 5,450 | POST OFFICE NOTICES.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30.
Mails close at Christchurch ; For Otago and Australian Colonies, per Albion, at 1.50 p. in.
For Northern Ports of New Zealand, Sydney, and Brisbane, per Ringaroonia at 1.50 p in.
The next mail foi the United Kingdom via San Francisco will be closed at Christchurch on Frid... |
AG/1879/AG_18790930/MM_01/0003.xml | 1 | |
AG/1879/AG_18790930/MM_01/0004.xml | 1 | |
AG/1879/AG_18790930/MM_01/0005.xml | 2,885 | ' / ' cTues day . September 30. 1879.]
THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN
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-If aw Advertises SEALY BR lEEDSMEN AND Nl East Strek ASHBURTC Ann, Garden, and Flow Garden Requisites of e' Jtion at Lowest B Nursery—Moore £ Ashburton roys’s D. Davidson’s Quarl on MONDAY Next. Vac Boys. < COUNTY CRICKE A GENERAL MEETIN Club will be... |
AG/1879/AG_18790930/MM_01/0006.xml | 3,798 | fHM AiHiUjitfßH 6I>AM)iAA
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Printed und published by Horac* vJL2. Wee) and Charles Dixwl* Prmtg Office East Street, *aSi»W» F ♦ September 39,1875/ ****”**•'
fftjwrai Merchants. R. H ODDER ■•- ;ARD \ . Company, GENERAL MERCHANTS, \ DRAPERS, CLOTHIERS, AND STOREKEEPERS, East street, ashburton, Railway Station;.) NEW... |
AG/1879/AG_18791004/MM_01/0001.xml | 2,397 | The Ashburton Guardian.
COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND SPORTING RECORDER
Vol. L—No. 4.
ASHBURTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1879
Price—TWOPENCE
Alctioneera and Oommiaiaion Agents EDMISTON BROS. & 6UNDRY, (IiATE BUIXOCK AND CO.), -4 ASHBURTON, General Merchants, Auctioneers, Stock, Station, Estate, and Commission '-Agents. S... |
AG/1879/AG_18791004/MM_01/0002.xml | 4,694 | J. T. Ford & Co. report 8n the *ive B foGk .market for the week ending Mb 2nd instant, as follbws : At the Yards on Wednesday, 3646 sheep, # ttle > and 26 FS B were sent to hand fc. r tnß week’s supply. In consequence’ *** s hort supply of fat sheep, there a Rrceptible advance of at least from Is. * Si . 6d. per head o... |
AG/1879/AG_18791004/MM_01/0003.xml | 7,588 | SPORTING.
SPORTING NOTES. [by robin hood.] The annual meeting of the Ashburton Racing Club will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, November 19 an2o. The programme has been issued, and provides six events for each day’s racing, and the character of the stakes should ensure large fields and good sport. A feature of the ... |
AG/1879/AG_18791004/MM_01/0004.xml | 7,697 | "“\"There - Is good butter to be had, aiid it *ht to pay the producer and curer better a an inferi(...TRUNCATED) |
New Zealand Public Domain Newspapers Dataset Card
Dataset Overview
Dataset Name: New Zealand Public Domain Newspapers
Description: The New Zealand Public Domain Newspapers dataset comprises a collection of historical newspapers from New Zealand. The dataset is organized into Parquet files divided by year. Each file contains detailed information about the newspaper articles, including metadata extracted from XML files.
Languages Covered: The dataset primarily contains English-language documents.
Total Number of Documents: 1,772,785
Total Number of Words: 10,178,602,316
Average Number of Words per Document: 5,741.59
Dataset Structure
The dataset is stored in Parquet files organized by year. Each Parquet file contains the following metadata for each document:
identifier: Unique identifier for the document.word_count: Total number of words in the document.text: Full text content of the document.
Each Parquet file is accompanied by the original XML files collected into tar.gz files, one for each Parquet file.
Usage
The dataset can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to:
- Analyzing historical newspaper trends and topics over time.
- Studying the distribution and frequency of words and phrases in historical contexts.
- Developing natural language processing models to analyze the content of newspaper articles.
- Extracting insights related to historical events and their representation in newspapers.
Source
The dataset is collected from the public domain newspapers of New Zealand. The original XML files are processed and converted into Parquet format for efficient storage and analysis.
Dataset Citation
If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as follows:
@dataset{NZ_Public_Domain_Newspapers_2024,
title={New Zealand Public Domain Newspapers Dataset},
author={Pleias},
year={2024},
description={Collection of historical newspapers from New Zealand, organized by year and language, with detailed metadata extracted from XML files.}
}
Note: The dataset is presented and maintained by Pleias. All rights reserved.
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