Word: hilo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hilo (pop. 18,000) is the chief city of Hawaii proper. Ranching in the old-west ern style thrives on the grassy Hawaiian uplands. Near Hilo is the biggest Hawaiian ranch, "Sam" Parker's (cattle, sheep; $600,000 per annum income). Southward rises Kilauea, home of Goddess Pele. whose volcanic antics are kept under careful observation by Dr. Thomas Augustus Jaggar of the U. S. Geological Survey...
...editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater by dense sulphur fumes...
Natives attributed the eruption to Pele, Hawaiian goddess of Volcanoes. Although Hawaiian mythology relates that Pele long ago agreed never to let the lava-flow menace Hilo, the natives, not altogether confident that the goddess would keep her bargain, sought to appease her last week with offerings of fruit and berries...
...than not the earth's major convulsions take place within a few hours of the first warning quiver. It was just such an instrument that Dr. Thomas A . Jaggar reported having perfected upon his arrival last week in California from his post at the government volcano observatory at Hilo, Hawaii (TIME, May 3). It was an earthquake annunciator, a simplified seismograph for installation in the cellars of private dwellings, with an indicator to be read upstairs. It would, he said-and his high standing as a scientist removed all doubt from the assertion-record earth shocks from the slightest...
Earthquakes followed the lava, of sufficient violence to move buildings eight inches in the island's principal settlement, Hilo, on the east coast. In the mahogany and sandalwood forests and sugar plantations under Mauna Loa's great flanks, damage was extensive, though for the most part the lava followed its old paths, which lie arid and deserted...