The Independent (Honolulu, H.I.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,865 issues from 1895 to 1905, published in Honolulu, Hawaii, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1895, two daily newspapers titled the Independent appeared in Honolulu. The second began publication nine days after the final issue of the earlier Independent, which had been edited by Daniel Logan. In the first issue on June 24, 1895, Editor Edmund Norrie assured readers that “The INDEPENDENT is in no way connected with the defunct paper of the same name which was recently started and a few weeks ago gobbled up by the Evening Bulletin.” Published daily except Sunday, Norrie’s Independent provided news of all of the Hawaiian Islands and the rest of the world, numerous ads, and editorial comment in four to six pages. Its estimated circulation was 3,000.
A native of Denmark, Norrie supported the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy, which had been overthrown in 1893. Norrie opposed the non-Hawaiian governments that followed, including the provisional government under Sanford Ballard Dole, the Republic established in 1894 with Dole as president, and the territorial government created after the U.S. annexation of Hawai‘i in 1898. Norrie was among the editors and printers of various opposition Hawaiian and English newspapers, including Daniel Logan of the other Independent, prosecuted and imprisoned for libel and conspiracy by the non-Hawaiian government. A native of Denmark, Norrie also edited the English sections of several Hawaiian language newspapers–Hawaii Holomua and Ka Makaainana, both nationalistic pro-Hawaiian papers. Norrie persevered in his criticism of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- Language
- English
- 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