Support Local Businesses.
New cracker machines were installed at Love’s Bakery at Pauahi and Nuuanu Streets, and now being baked are light soda crackers [barena huina-ha liilii palupalu] and saloon pilot crackers [barena poepoe]. These are better than the crackers from outside of Hawaii. Hawaiians should purchase what is produced locally.
(Kuokoa Home Rula, 3/19/1909, p. 1)
Kuokoa Home Rula, Buke VII, Helu 12, Aoao 1. Maraki 19, 1909.
What a concept in 1909 – buy local!
Here is another one from a few years later! https://nupepa-hawaii.com/2012/08/04/rising-food-prices-will-politicians-ever-learn-19232012/