Lei Day 50 years ago, 1968.
It all started in 1928 Wear your aloha shirts, muumuus, leis tomorrow As has been the custom since Grace Tower Warren and Don Blanding began the observance of Lei Day in 1928, aloha shirts, muumuus and...
View ArticleMay Day is Lei Day in Hilo, 1941.
Day to Don Lei Tomorrow is a great day here in Hilo; it is the day to wear lei, and everyone will be seen walking on the streets with lei. Because tomorrow has become the day to wear lei, the …...
View ArticleForty years ago, Brothers Cazimero May Day Concert at the Shell! 1978.
[Found under: “Show Biz: Wayne Harada”] Hana hou For You a Lei Day Program. The Brothers Cazimero, who just appeared in Ken Rosene’s Hawaii Contemporary Music Festival, will do an “encore” of sorts...
View ArticleThis letter to the editor of the Nuhou is interesting in so many ways. 1873.
NOT GOOD. When I saw the newspaper Nuhou Hawaii; I was greatly gladdened to see it. When I took a close look, I was very happy. I talked with my wife, “Hey, this paper, Nuhou Hawaii, it is very good …...
View ArticleA mele maʻi for Kunuiakea, 1862.
He inoa no Kunuiakea. He mai waiala no ke ‘lii, A lu ia ae, onaona paoa ka mai o ke ‘lii, Mai o Kukailimoku, I hoi moe i kana wahine, Ia Kalohelani a Kinau, Kaukeanohiolani ka wahine, O Kihealani a …...
View ArticleEruption 150 years ago, 1868.
THE ERUPTION! Up to Wednesday, 29th ult., there has been no further accounts of volcanic action on Hawaii. The earthquakes have ceased in violence and frequency, although the whole islands is still...
View ArticleVolcanic activity, 1919.
Kilauea Displays Renewed Activity According to a radiogram received by L. W. de Vis-Norton Wednesday night, a wonderful spectacle is developing at Halemaumau. The lava has risen to within 200 feet of...
View ArticleDavid Alapai and his mele inoa for Pele, 1919.
INTERESTING MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE LAVA SEASIDE OF ALIKA When lava gushed forth upon the land of Alika, nearby the “building filled with tons of awa.” Sleeping there in that place was a man...
View ArticleLeilani Estates, $100 down per acre, 1968.
PSSST. Effective today, $100 down will buy you a one acre, fee simple, garden-residential estate on the Big Island. Price? From $3,300. But you can take advantage of our introductory offer of $200 cash...
View ArticleAnother Leilani Estates ad, 1969.
Invest in a promising area before everybody else does. Buy Leilani Estates $100 DOWN ONE ACRE Honolulu Landing Nanawale Bay Makaukiu Kipu Point KAPOHO LEILANI ESTATES Cape Kumukahi Kapoho Point...
View ArticleOn Pele’s departure from Kahiki, 1906.
[Found under: “He Moolelo no Hiiakaikapoli-o-Pele.] KAU HELU UMI-KUMAMAKAHI A HIIAKA. 1. Mai Kahiki ka wahine o Pele 2. Mai ka aina i Polapola 3. Mai ka punohu a Kane 4. Mai ke ao lalapa i ka lani 5....
View ArticleMore on the arrival of Pele, 1862.
[Found under: “HE MOOOLELO NO HIIAKAIKAPOLIOPELE. Helu 9.] Holo mai Pele mai Kahikina, A kau ka waa i Mookini, Noho kaua i Kumalae, Hooku Pele ma i ke kii, Noho i ke kii a Pele ma, a ka pua o …...
View ArticleFrom the eruption 99 years ago, 1919.
NEWS ABOUT THE LAVA IN KONA According to the news in the Hilo Tribune newspaper from Tom C. White [Toma C. White] of Kainaliu, he reported on what he and some others witnessed of the activity of the...
View ArticleEscaping rocks thrown into the sky, 1924.
The Deeds of Madame Pele, the Woman of the Pit, are Wondrous Many Lives are Spared From the Rocks of Lava Rocks and Ash are Thrown into the Sky When the Lava Exploded This Past Tuesday HILO, May...
View ArticleCasualties from exploding lava, 1924.
MET WITH DEATH FROM ROCKS FROM THE THE LAVA Two Haole Soldiers Disappear Without Being Found—It is Believed They Too Were Victims of the Lava These are the two haole soldiers who disappeared without...
View ArticleGeorge M. Keone reports the latest from Ewa, 1913.
NEWS OF ALOHA OF THE VOICE-HUSHING MARINE ANIMAL OF EWA O Editor of the Kuokoa, Aloha to you and the hands of your ship carrying news:—Please have room for me to put my baggage, and if you agree to it,...
View ArticleThis is some fishing story! 1893.
LETTERS [We do not wish to carry the responsibility for the errors of the ideas printed below this title by our writers.] The Starving Ones in the Upland are Saved, a Strange Fish was Landed. O Kuokoa...
View ArticleSpeaking of fishes, here is a list of fish names put out by Margaret Titcomb,...
TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE NAMES OF VARIOUS SEA CREATURES AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS (Written by M. TITCOMB) Below is a list of names of some Hawaiian fishes that are written in a book of names at the...
View ArticleThe beginning of Mary Kawena Pukui & Margaret Titcomb’s list of sea...
TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE NAMES OF VARIOUS SEA CREATURES AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS Here below is a list of names of some Hawaiian sea creatures that are written down in a book of names of the Kamehameha...
View ArticlePublication of “Native Use of Fish in Hawaii,” 1956.
Hawaiians Were Gourmets When It Came to Fish By CLARICE TAYLOR The Hawaiian pitied the white man as an uncultivated person when he first saw the white man eating fish. The white man discarded the...
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