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Things that make you go, “Hmmmm.” 1922.
HULA-HULA DOLL IN PARADE The Hula-hula doll has broken into society, at least into flapper society, as proved by this photograph from the Atlantic City Parade. (Big Sandy News, 5/12/1922, p. 6)Filed...
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E o e Kuini Kapiolani! 1898.
HANOHANO NUUANU. Hanohano Nuuanu aia iuka, Kahiko i ka Ua Popokapa, Ke nihi ae la Waolani, A loaa maua i Kanenelu, Wai auau a kuu aloha, Me Eha hua hiu a wela, Ua ahi ua wela Wananakoa, I ka hooni a...
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No fooling in Lahaina a hundred years ago, 1916.
ALL WERE DELIGHTED Mr. Sol Hanohano, Aloha oe:—Please allow me some open space on the wings of the seagull of ours, so the words above have somewhere to nest. While everyone was sitting around in the...
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Banyan at Lahaina, 1930s? 1940s?
Found this postcard a while back in a box at home. Aren’t these the very trees that the Lahaina Public Band was playing under a hundred years ago? Filed under: commentary from this blog, Foreign...
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Devastating Tsunami, 1946.
Kai Hoee When the tsunami [kai hoee] hit, it reached all the large islands of this archipelago. It hit Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii. But the island of Hawaii received the heaviest damages. The...
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Kamehameha Day preparations, 1916.
Please Give Your Help for Our Holiday THE EVENTS FOR KAMEHAMEHA DAY ON THE COMING JUNE 11 At the discussion meeting held at the office of Edgar Henriques in the McCandless Brothers Building, chaired by...
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Recollections of Kauai boy, William E. Rowell, 1916.
INTERVIEW WITH W. E. ROWELL Dec. 6, 1915 The following interview with the late W. E. Rowell, who died recently in Honolulu, was read at the meeting of the Kauai Historical Society last week by J. M....
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Conclusion of the Interview of William E. Rowell, 1916.
INTERVIEW WITH W. E. ROWELL Dec. 6, 1915 (Continued from last issue.) The shingles were imported and were boiled in whale oil before they were put on. They lasted a long, long time, 25 years, until...
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Beached whale at Kailua, 1911.
THE MANY OF KAILUA WERE SAVED BY THE GREAT FISH, THE “PALAOA PAE.” One clear day some weeks ago, a large, heavy-bodied whale landed here in Kailua at the cape of Alaala on the windward side, and it was...
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Another beached whale, 1901.
WHALE WASHED ASHORE AT KEEI NATIVES WAX RICH FROM BIG FIND MADE ON HAWAII LAST WEEK. Some of the natives living at Keei, Hawaii made a rich find last Saturday. They caught a 32 foot whale. The...
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Whale vs Shark, 1909.
WHALE BATTLES SHARK Seeing a fight between a Shark and a Whale was something entranced the tourists of the Moana Hotel outside of Waikiki at ten o’clock or so in the morning of this past Wednesday....
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What was the Bishop Museum Director thinking, 1898.
OLD CANNONS. When the warship Bennington returned from Kauai, it brought two old cannons from Hanalei, from the place of Judge Thurston [Lunakanawai Kakina], with the thought of the captain that these...
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Cannons from the Haaheo o Hawaii wreck, 1857.
Wreck of the “Pride of Hawaii.” In the year 1824, the yacht of Kamehameha II, called “Ka Haaheo o Hawaii,” formerly the “Cleopatra’s Barge,” was wrecked at Waioli, in the Bay of Hanalei, Kauai. An...
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John Polapola, proud eater of stones! 1893.
I SHALL EAT STONES. This past Wednesday, John Polapola was dragged along by a traitor to his motherland. This is what he said to Jno. Polapola, as he held on tightly to his hand. Let’s go. Where are we...
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Death of John Polapola, 1896.
[Found under: “KELA A ME KEIA.”] A little after 10 o’clock on the night of Tuesday last, the breath of Keoni Polapola left him, at his residence makai of Honuakaha, Queen Street. He was seen that...
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“An Adornment for the Patriots,” 1893.
HE OHU NO KA POE ALOHA AINA. Kaulana na pua o Hawaii Kupaa mahope o ka aina Hiki mai ka elele o ka lokoino Palapala alunu me ka pakaha Pane mai o Hawaii Nui a Keawe Kokua na Honoapiilani Kakoo mai...
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“What always carries the crowd away,” 1893 / today / forevermore.
WHAT THEY SING. What Always Carries the Crowd Away. The patriotic song, “Kaulana na Pua o Hawaii,” composed and sung by the Hawaiian National Band at their concerts, has been put into English by “Makee...
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Book of Nationalistic Songs, 1896.
He Buke Mele Lahui. The Editor gifted a copy of the Buke Mele Lahui, Volume 1 to this Office, and we glanced through its pages. It is a book of 112 pages aside from the advertisements, table of...
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Denial of “Hawaii Ponoi,” 1894.
HAWAII PONOI. Here is a Version Which is Not a Royalist One. Hawaii Ponoi is a good old song, but it contains too much feudal sentiment to suit these progressive days. Here is a version which strikes...
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A new scathing “Hawaii Ponoi,” 1894.
TOPICS OF THE DAY. The Advertiser with its usual ingenuity has finally found the cause for all the opposition among the Hawaiians to the P. G., and to the annexation cause. It is all on account of...
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