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FEBRUARY 7


The Pacific Commercial Advertiser covered the previous day's consecration of St. Clement's Episcopal Church on page 4 in 1910.

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1885: The Rev. Samuel C. Damon dies at age 69. He was pastor and chaplain of Bethel Church for more than 40 years.

1899: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports it is probable that a large sugar plantation will be established in Puna.

1913: The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports the city hoped to rat-proof Honolulu within the commercial and adjacent districts and to render the port practically immune to plague.

1916: American-Hawaiian steamers are to be withdrawn from service between Hawai'i and New York via the Strait of Magellan and put in the Atlantic trade. Three steamers will remain in the Pacific to carry sugar between the Islands and San Francisco. The sugar will then be sent to eastern refineries by rail. The main American-Hawaiian fleet will go into the war trade. Honolulu merchants braced for higher freight costs.

1919: Intense activity reported in the pit of Halema'uma'u, the inner crater of Kilauea.

1924: Janet T. MacIntyre is elected one of 15 directors of Bishop Trust Co. Ltd. She is the first woman to become a director of a large financial institution in Hawai'i.

1960: The floor of Halema'uma'u collapses and a lava pool begins to form.

1974: The Board of Water Supply adopts a schedule of monthly sewer-use charges to go into effect April 1.

2004: Workers at Hawaiian Cement go on strike. Now both of O'ahu's major concrete companies are shut down.


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