Papakilodatabase.com back up! 2014.
I have been doing searches and it seems like the newspaper searches are working! @oha_hawaii YAY! i was having withdrawals. — nupepa-hawaii.com (@Nupepa) May 7, 2014Filed under: commentary from this...
View ArticleThe Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1911.
THE MUSEUM On the 2nd of October, the museum mauka of the Kamehameha School for Boys will be opened, and everyone will be able to tour it without payment during the time allowed. In the museum there...
View ArticleNew hours of the Bishop Museum, 1911.
ANNOUNCEMENT. On the 2nd of October, 1911 and thereafter until a new announcement is made, the Bernice P. Bishop Museum will be opened to the public from 10 a. m. until the 4 p. m. EVERYDAY except...
View ArticleEmma Metcalf Nakuina affronted, 1897.
Contemptuous Act Against Women. Being that the parading was being held in the uplands of the Kamehameha School for Boys, on the plains of Kaiwiula, Mrs. Emma Metcalf Nakuina went attended by Mrs. R. W....
View ArticleMore on Emma Nakuina, W. T. Brigham, and the Bishop Museum, 1897.
NOT COURTEOUS Treatment of Ladies at Bishop Museum. An Open Protest to the Trustees of the Kamehameha Schools. MR. EDITOR:—The undersigned with three other ladies, Hawaiians of the highest...
View ArticleNewspapers and history and yesterday and tomorrow, 2014.
Whenever i talk to people about doing research in the Hawaiian-Language Newspapers or in any historical material for that matter, i try to prepare them saying that you never know what you will find in...
View ArticleBeginnings of Mother’s Day in Hawaii nei, 1913.
MOTHER’S DAY. It would appear that this is the third or second year perhaps here in Honolulu in which we have remembered mothers on this past Sunday; this is foreign to us, but it will maybe become...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day, 1933.
MOTHER’S DAY OBSERVED ONCE MORE. Just as has been the custom these past years, the day for mothers has been observed, and flowers were placed on the breasts of the mothers on this past Sunday....
View ArticleLetter from a son away serving in the armed forces to his mother, 1918.
PETER K. MORSE A SON WRITES TO HIS MOTHER. The picture above is of a Hawaiian boy who left Hawaii nei to join the armed forces in England, and he is currently a corporal in the cavalry for the British...
View ArticleFollow up on previous post about Peter K. Morse, 1926.
KAINANA HIRAM PASSES ON TO OTHER WORLD At eleven o’clock in the night of last Tuesday, Mrs. Hiram, who was a kamaaina to the people of this town, Mrs. Elizabeth Kainana Puahi Hiram, grew weary of this...
View ArticleLook back at pa-u riders of the past, 1906.
PA-U HORSE RIDING HAWAIIAN LADIES OF FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. (Kuokoa, 2/16/1906, p. 4)Filed under: Illustration Tagged: pāʻū rider
View ArticleWords for/from the youth of today, 2014.
Silent Constituencies and Building a Voice I am a millennial and this year I am registering to vote. The August primary will be my first opportunity to cast a ballot for publicly elected officials...
View ArticleRe-population in the eyes of the haole, 1876.
Palapala Hoopii i ka Moi. Ka Hooulu Lahui. [This memorial urging re-population of the nation was probably an English document, translated here into Hawaiian. For the English and the interesting list of...
View ArticleOn Hooulu Lahui, 1876.
SATURDAY, MARCH 4. REPOPULATION. The following is the text of the memorial of citizens which was presented to His Majesty on Tuesday last, by a committee of signers: To His Majesty the King, Sire:—We,...
View ArticleTemperance Advocate and Seamen’s Friend, 1843–1954.
The Friend Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon was sent by the American Seamen’s Friend Society to be chaplain in Honolulu. The Damons sailed from New York March 10, 1842 aboard the Victoria, Captain Spring, and...
View ArticleRestoration Anthem, 1843.
The following hymn was sung by various circles on the day of the Restoration; as well as after the Temperance Picnic, given by His Majesty, to Foreign Residents and Naval Officers, (English and...
View ArticleHawaiian Language classes on Maui, 1941.
TEACHES MAUI HAWAIIAN CLASS J. P. COCKETT J. P. Cockett, county treasurer of Maui, is successfully conducting a class for the study of the Hawaiian language at Wailuku, which has a total enrollment of...
View ArticleHawaiian Hotel on Hotel Street, 1899.
THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL HOTEL STREET, HONOLULU. The grounds upon which it stands comprise an entire square fronting on Hotel Street. There are twelve pretty cottages within this charming enclosure, all...
View ArticleMore pāʻū riders, 1909.
THE ISLAND PRINCESSES, INCLUDING MRS. CHRIS HOLT, OAHU; MISS HANNAH CUMMINGS, MAUI; MISS EMMA ROSE, HAWAII; MISS KAPAHU, KAUAI; MISS BLACKWELL, MOLOKAI; MISS ROSE GIBSON, LANAI. (Hawaiian Gazette,...
View ArticleIsland Princesses, 1908.
ISLAND PRINCESSES. THE PA-U RIDERS. Thirty-four pa-u riders came cantering along in four sections of color: yellow, red, orange and pink, led by Judge Andrade and Mrs. Puahi. The Kaonohiokala Club sent...
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