No, it's a regular news item. It wouldn't have to be breaking news to be published on a regular schedule. Hawaii had around 15,000 births in 1961, IIRC. What is that ... about 300 per week?? Depending on a newspaper's guideline for publishing names, they would need to print them very regularly, just to stay on top of the volume of announcements.
How closely would you expect the Honolulu papers to resemble each other on the announcements?
Good point. So maybe they did, indeed, print the list regularly, even daily.
Maybe the state just sent a list over every time they got a page full. Who knows?
I think all I’ve ever seen of the newspaper announcements are clippings. I’d like to see a whole page, perhaps from different dates. It’s entirely possible that one or both of the papers specified where each batch of births occurred.
What libraries have Honolulu newspaper microfilm? This really shouldn’t be that hard to figure out.
Specifically, Honolulu had 29,628 births in 1961. The total for the state was over 35,000.