The Garden Island (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
600 issues from 1911 to 1922, published in Lihue, Hawaii, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1902, Japanese immigrant Sometaro Sheba published the first newspaper on Kauaʻi. Based in Lihuʻe and appearing in two editions (English and Japanese), the Garden Island, has continued to cover life on Kauaʻi to the present day. In 1903, prominent Kauaʻi citizens Mason Fay Prosser, Edward DeLacy, Johan Ludvig V. Hjorth, and Frank Crawford formed a corporation to purchase the Garden Island. Sheba continued to serve as the publisher and editor, producing English and Japanese language editions until 1904, when the editions were separated into two. The Japanese edition became the Kauai Shinpo. The Garden Island was published weekly from 1902 to 1964, then switched to twice a week from 1964 to 1976, when it was published three times a week. Presently it appears daily.
In its first decade, the Garden Island presented local, national, and international news; as well as editorials, regular columns, sports news, fiction, advertisements, legal notices, and the schedule for the Garden Island steamer. Local news included crimes on plantations, deaths, and arrivals of new immigrant plantation workers. Regular column topics included poultry care, library new book lists, Sunday sermons, and “Our Little Boys and Girls,” which featured 500-word short stories by children on Kauaʻi.
During World War I while the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and Wailuku’s Maui News expressed extreme anti-German sentiment, the Garden Island was more moderate toward local…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lihue, 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