"Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4."
The exact same notice appeared the following day in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The numerous birth announcements above and below the Obama listing also were identical in both papers, which were unaffiliated, competing publications.
Advertiser columnist and former Star-Bulletin managing editor Dave Shapiro was not at either paper in 1961, but he remembers how the birth notices process worked years later when both papers were jointly operated by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency — which no longer exists.
"Those were listings that came over from the state Department of Health," he said. "They would send the same thing to both papers."
Actually that is wrong date wise, the notice appeared in the Sunday August 13, 1961 edition of “The Advertiser” and the Wednesday August 16, 1961 edition of “The Star-Bulletin” You will notice however, they were unable to locate anyone who had worked at either paper at the time when the notices were printed in 1961. I will also point out the absence of the birth announcement of the Nordyke twin daughters from either paper. The Nordyke twin daughters were born Saturday, August 5, 1961 and if the procedure was as the editor mentioned, their announcement should appear.
So it worked like that years later when the managing editor worked there when both papers were owned by the same Agency. Still not evidence of how those notices in particular, or notices in general, were obtained by the papers in 1961, just evidence of how they were obtained “years later”.