Do you know for a fact that the newspaper did not obtain the information from the Health Bureau? The paper says “health bureau” which is probably where the COLB had to be filed.
I doubt that newspapers went combing through hospital records to find data of births.
And isnt it true that a COLB could be obtained in Hawaii at that time even if the baby was born elsewhere?
The papers received a report each week from the Bureau of Vital Statistics listing births, deaths, marriages and divorces, statistics the Bureau gathered from hospitals, funeral homes and courts. In turn this information was given to the papers and then printed each Sunday.