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The Honolulu Advertiser
The history of today

JUNE 9


The Honolulu Board of Supervisors was not terribly receptive when Mayor Fern asked for an automobile in 1909.

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1909: Lana'i passes a prohibition law. "Arriving on the island in a state of intoxication, five dollars, payable on the spot or taken out in hide," the law read. It was also illegal to take intoxicants to the island.

1926: Sanford B. Dole, only president of the Republic of Hawai'i, first governor of the Territory of Hawai'i and a U.S. district judge, dies at the age of 82.

1957: Don Blanding, poet, lecturer, illustrator, author and expert in Hawaiian lore, dies in Los Angeles. He had spent his life praising Hawai'i to the world, The Advertiser wrote.

1972: The Hawai'i Supreme Court rules unanimously that the three-year residency requirement for state employment is illegal.


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