The history of today AUGUST 3

	It was front-page news on Aug. 3, 1906 when the Promotion Committee joined the effort to ban billboards.

1906: An agent for the Edison Moving Picture Co. rides through the streets of Honolulu "with a moving picture machine on a car specially fitted for his use by the Rapid Transit Company" and takes pictures to show people of the world what the people of Honolulu look like "and how they comport themselves generally on big days at home." The car starts at Capitol Square and ends at Diamond Head.

1907: The road down the Windward side of the Pali is to be macadamized so it can be a winter road as well as a summer road, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports.

1910: No less than a third of the dairy cattle supplying Honolulu with milk have been found to be infected with tuberculosis, the board of agriculture and forestry is told.

1911: The girls dormitory at Punahou is destroyed by a fire that broke out in an upper floor. No one was living in the dorm at the time.

1928: Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House arrives in Honolulu for the Pan-Pacific Women's conference.

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