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Show Hawaii Liked by New England Oddly enough, Hawaii, western extremity of the United States, has a sentimental Interest for New England, Eng-land, the eastern extremity. They arj more than 5,000 miles apart, yet It was New England that introduced intro-duced the Hawaiians to the American Ameri-can standard of living and to the American school system. On October Octo-ber Zi, 1S1II, the brig Thaddcus. having on board a group of missionaries mis-sionaries and their associates, sailed from Boston for what was then known as the Sandwich islands. The 17 pioneers included preachers, printers and school teachers. A::.-:-five months of stormy sailing the Thaddcus arrived at Hawaii on Mtiich :)), 1-JO. |