Searching the newspapers prior to 1900 | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Searching the newspapers prior to 1900

Is it possible to have online access to the old Hong Kong newspapers prior to 1900? The earliest date that it's possible to search seems to be 1900 on the "Advanced" option - or am I doing something wrong? Help please!

Jill

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This technique lets you search for newspapers published before 1900: https://gwulo.com/node/23672

I think I've got the hang of bringing up the newspapers published on a specific day. The above instructions also seem to let you bring up newspapers for a whole month. If I want to, say, find out if there were any references to John Smith in the newspapers between 1894 and 1899, is there a way of doing that? - i.e. looking for a name within a five year period (or more) pre-1900.

I don't have an exact solution, but here are a couple of tips that will help make ithis type of search faster: https://gwulo.com/node/40611