Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-30
HISTORY Is 6|IE De ||A5lI|S
OLDEST PUBLICATION The FRIEND

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cone since ||In. the advertisement
az g. Brewer . co, has appeared re.4
I6rIr = l11 01Inmns of The frielu'
~. ||.| I.sne of the January NUMBER
IN 1S45 contained but one sother ar
vrrtisement beside that Of 6. Brewer
q Co. but the second issue Of the
January number contained q whole
column az advertising. white the hrsk
issue OF the February number con-
| tanned whole page. OF the adyer.ls.
ers of II years ago only &. breNs1
q Co are still In businessand slill ~
| vertising IN The Friend. Or the
advertisers OF so years ago. but two
are still In business. These are =.
| Brewer & Co. and Castle 4 Cooke
and these two firms are stIll advertls-
ing with THE Friend" II may De
/ interesting 70 note here that 50 years
! $50 Castle q Cookies advertisement
vas devoted exclusively to the state
ment that they were agents tor the
u wheeler q Wilson sewing machine.
or the advertisers Of Is years ago,
o1 are still In business and stir hq'
yertising with The Friend,
What wonderful progress the world
has made during the life time OF The
Friend" what marvellous mNes.l2l,s
, and improvements In manuIaetuIs-
Even in the art OF printing the pso-
! gress has been most astonisning ~ y.
, doubtedly, in It's infancy The Friepo
was printed by hand power, pernht.
ON one Of the old Washington nene
: ! presses similar to the presses USED
: by BENJAMIN Franklin during the days
D Of mis- newspaper career What slow
' arducus task printing must have been
4 then as compared with now with our
modern methods Of linotype setting 81
= TYNE and electric power OF runnlnH
! nresses Today ~The Friend Is print
: cd on the most modern presses by tns
4 most improved methods In the print
ing plant OF the Honolulu Star.Buiie
tin. We fancy that II the hrst prlnt
n er of "The Friend" could return =.
:, earth and behold the speed with wnicl
= the tyne are set and the papers rul
: off the press as "The Friend" Is prln,
= ed today he would not only marfe
= at the transformation in the ar
! printing but would be startled am
le alarmed.
of "The Friend" in its infancy knew
ID no competitor anywhere on the Wnoi
r broad Pacific, nor yet on the grea
~ American continent west Of the ROCK
IL mountains. Today there are Thousand
Is If napers. and among them some
d. tho worlds greatest dailles that nav
r sprung into existence since then.
Seventy-three years ago I'm
OF FRIEND made It's stand for tempe
TX ance and righteousness, today =
N found still upholding the same %.
be ners as were unfufled BY the ear.
N Founders Of the paper. The Friend
lis Is broadly religious. moral and educ
ie- tionaI In character Il ably discuss
gu subjects OF local, national and int
a.. national interest It reproduces n co
us densed form the principal news even
q as appear In the daily papers his'
=. rical "reminiscences and HaWarr
= legends frequently appear In the ?
re- per. while now and then spec.
number Is dedicated TO some spee1
cause. event. or beneyoIent lnstit
If tion, II Is not one church p4pe
neither is IL sectarian or political
,af character. It Is an Independents
TO near. fearless-in its attacks upon e
&c. in whatever form wherever foun
1at and q worthy champion Of every go
an cause that affects the community
ew-l serves.