The Maui News (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,261 issues from 1900 to 1922, published in Wailuku, Hawaii, digitised for Chronicling America.
Maui island’s first newspaper, the Maui News, has been continuously published in Wailuku, Maui in English since February 17, 1900. George B. Robertson edited the four-page, six-column weekly until 1905, when it was sold to The Maui Publishing Company, Ltd. Prominent Maui citizens Henry P. Baldwin, John Norman Spencer Williams, Carl Waldeyer, and Daniel Hebard Case formed the publishing company to purchase and run the paper. C.L. Clement (1905), Hugh M. Coke (1905-1910), and William J. Cooper (1914-1920) were among the paper’s subsequent editors during its early years.
Editor Robertson outlined his goals for the Maui News in the first issue: “Independent in politics, religion and literature, it will advocate first the interests of Maui, next those of the islands at large, and what time and space may be left will be devoted to regulating the affairs of this world generally.” The most significant local news item on the paper’s founding was the spread of the bubonic plague–which by that time had caused six deaths. Over the next few months, Robertson reported on the plague and efforts to contain and eradicate it. He also included a variety of other local and international news, editorials, literary and entertainment pieces, and shipping schedules.
In its early years the Maui News depicted an island community in the throes of change, as the sugar and pineapple industries rapidly altered the island’s geographic, economic, political, and cultural landscape. The need for…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wailuku, Hawaii, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress