Hank Soboleski - Island History
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The first edition of The Garden Island newspaper was printed in January 1902 at Kapaia, Kauai, by Japanese immigrant Sometaro Sheba (1870-1946) — the paper’s founder and its first publisher and editor — in two language editions, English and Japanese.

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