So what we see in the Aug 13th Advertiser and Aug 14th Star-Bulletin is what you’d expect to see all the time? The same list published a day or two apart from each other?
Is there anything you can think of that would cause a paper to split the lists in half and print part of the list one day and then the other part some time later - like a couple days later, or a couple weeks later?
Can you think of any reason that a particular Honolulu birth would be included in one paper but not the other?
I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at with the questions. I mentioned these two papers may have different formats and a different publication schedule too. Maybe the one paper didn’t have a Sunday edition and had to print on Mondays??
The lists from the state should be identical. There is no reason for them to differ from one paper to the other.
I suppose a family could purchase a classified ad to announce a birth in one paper and not in the other, but that would be a completely different thing, not on the list we’re talking about.
Right now I’m wondering if they really did run lists of every baby born, because the numbers cited by edge and patlin must be taken into account. If every birth in Hawaii was published, that’s a list of more than 90 babies PER DAY. Even in tiny type, that’s a lot of column inches.
Privacy wasn’t an issue in 1961 like it is now, and public records were much more accessible. However, it is entirely possible that there was an opt-in/opt-out when the birth info was first gathered from the birth families. Perhaps only some births were published, only those who specifically said they wanted the info in the newspaper.
I seem to recall there being such an option when my sons were born. It’s been a while — not that long, but still . . . One forgets, even the precious times.
Sorry, didn’t answer your question about whether the paper might print part of the list one day and part of it another day.
I doubt it. With the numbers cited by patlin and edge919, if the lists were that long, seems falling behind one day would leave you in a situation similar to Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory.