“We know there was a list that was posted at the HDOH office, and the newspapers could have sent somebody to take down that information. I don’t know if there were photocopiers back then. The papers must have gotten the lists for marriage license applications somehow, and presumably the information came from the HDOH.”
I remember mimeograph machines in the sixties. So yes, multiple copies could be made.
Why weren’t they all in both papers? Who knows. If it was only the parents supplying the info, why would the one paper print on one day, and the other paper printed days later? None of it is consistent. None of it.
If that is frustrating, it is. That is simply the truth of it.
Perhaps because the person lodging the announcement was given the choice as to which paper they wanted the announcement to appear in? 'Tick This Box' FOR ONE OR BOTH.
And the announcements were printed according to how much space was available on a certain day?
Now I want to ask something...there are seven Hawaii Islands, correct? Are they all inhabited? Did some islands perhaps have their own local newspapers? And if YOU lived on one of the other islands, would YOU not chose to have YOUR birth announcements printed in the LOCAL newspaper?
What about an out-of-wedlock birth? A birth the mother may NOT wish to announce? What does she do? Notify the newspapers and DEMAND THEY DO NOT PRINT AN ANNOUNCEMENT?
Which-ever way you look at it, ANNOUNCEMENTS PLACED AS THE RESULT OF A LIST FROM VITAL RECORDS IN TWO HONOLULU PAPERS MAKE NO SENSE WHAT-SO-EVER.
BECAUSE THAT SUGGESTS THE PARENTS HAD NO CHOICE!