Advertiser columnist and former Star-Bulletin managing editor Dave Shapiro was not at either paper in 1961, but he remembers how the birth notices process worked years later when both papers were jointly operated by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency — which no longer exists.
"Those were listings that came over from the state Department of Health," he said. "They would send the same thing to both papers."
And a phone call to the newspaper agency from a proud grandma would have sufficed too. Are they going to say no to a little blurb - I doubt it.
Nope. They have a very clear policy:
IMPORTANT: You must attach a photocopy of your baby's official state-issued birth certificate; we cannot print your announcement without it.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/current/oh/births