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Swimming trophies brought home by the Hawaii boys, 1913.
HAWAII SWIMMERS BROUGHT HOME “THE BACON” Yesterday and today a good-sized crowd gathered about the window of Thrum’s book store, on Fort street, admiring the cups and medals brought back by the Hawaii...
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Champions, Duke Kahanamoku and Frances Cowells, 1915.
WHEN CHAMPIONS MEET Duke Kahanamoku and Frances Cowells, two of America’s greatest swimmers. The Duke was the hero of the last Olympiad and is the holder of several world’s records, while Miss Cowells...
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The birth of the future Kamehameha IV, 1839.
Honolulu March 4. Kinau just gave birth, on the sabbath, Feb. 9, to a son. Kauikeaouli named him, Liholiho, for his older brother who died in foreign lands; and he took him as a child. He is living in...
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O ko’u aupuni, he aupuni palapala ko’u, 1837.
From the Salem Gazette. “Please Exchange.”—On Friday, we received a file of the “Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commerce,” with a request, on the outside of the package, to “Please Exchange.”...
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Chiefs and officers of the nation, 1844.
CALENDAR The following is a list of the principal Chiefs, Officers of His Majesty’s Civil Administration; of the Chiefs entitled to rank, and of the present incumbents in the more important local...
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Atomic bomb destroys Hiroshima, 1945.
Hiroshima is Leveled GUAM—The crew of a large American bomber reported of a new type of bomb released above Japan; it fell with the rumbling of thunder, and it was like the strength of 2,00 large...
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Duke runs for reelection as sheriff of the city and county of Honolulu, 1936.
Duke Kahanamoku Asks Sheriff Re-election On Basis of Present Record Kahanamoku, scion of one of the few remaining full-blooded Hawaiian families in the islands, was responsible for returning the...
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Duke H. Kahanamoku, father of the world-famous Duke P. Kahanamoku, passes on,...
DUKE K. KAHANAMOKU LEAVES THIS LIFE BEHIND. Thursday last week, Duke K. Kahanamoku [Duke H. Kahanamoku] grew weary of this worldly life, the father of the swimming champion of Hawaii nei, at his home...
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Mrs. J. P. Kahanamoku passes on, 1936.
MRS. J. P. KAHANAMOKU SETS THIS LIFE ASIDE SHE WAS A MOTHER GREATLY BELOVED BY ALL Mrs. Julia Paoa Kahanamoku left this life at 69 years old, and she is the mother of Sheriff Duke Paoa Kahanamoku. At 9...
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Milk from Pukoo, Molokai, 1922.
MAPULEHU DAIRY PUKOO, MOLOKAI Delivered aboard the GASOLINE SCHOONER LELEIONA Between the Ports of Honolulu and Molokai Geo. P. Cooke, OWNER. Deliverers of Ice and Milk (Kuokoa, 3/17/1922, p. 4) Filed...
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The latest from Kohala, 1879.
News of the Apaapaa Winds. To My Constant Desire, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. Aloha oe:—On this past 11th of Oct., fire engulfed more or less 15 acres of Robert R. Hind’s. This is the cause. The fire jumped from...
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Special piano built, 1901.
PIANO MADE WITH HAWAIIAN WOOD. Bergstrom Music Company [hui kuai mea kani Bergstrom] received a piano made with koa wood. This piano was made in Chickering, Boston under the order of Prince...
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Reforesting Puu Ohia, Oahu, 1900.
PERTAINING TO GROWING SANDALWOOD. On the return of Governor Dole from his travels to Hawaii, he brought back some seed of trees growing in the mountains of that island to grow here on the ridges of Puu...
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Fred Malulani Beckley Kahea passing on traditional knowledge, 1922.
[Found under: “Nuhou Kuloko”] In order to teach mat weaving [ulana moena], feather lei making [haku lei hulu], net tying [ka upena], and other Hawaiian skills, Fred Malulani Beckley Kahea initiated...
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I thought I would stay away longer, 2015.
There are just too many interesting things in the Hawaiian Newspapers to stay away…Filed under: commentary from this blog
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Levi Haalelea’s genealogy, 1931.
THE GENEALOGY OF LEVI HAALELEA I am Z. P. Kalokuokamaile living in Honolulu and the County of Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii, and this is the 83rd year of my life; and in my [sentence stops here]¹...
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Queen Liliuokalani’s gift to the leprosy patients, 1891.
GIFT OF ALOHA TO THE LEPROSY PATIENTS AT KALIHI. We each all are going without a companion at our side, and no child before us or at our back, it is just our lone bodies going naked to the Colony of...
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Portrait of Levi Haalelea, 1864.
[Found under: “NA MEA HOU O HAWAII NEI.”] Portrait of Haalelea.—The haole which we spoke of the other week has painted a Portrait of Levi Haalelea who has passed, and it is now in the photography...
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Enoch Wood Perry Jr. arrives, 1864.
An Artist.—Among the passengers by the Comet last week, was Mr. E. W. Perry, Jr., a portrait and landscape painter. A specimen of his work can be seen in the bookstore—being a portrait of Rev. Mr....
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