Monthly Archives: October 2016

Soldiers playing marbles? 1867.

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[Found under: “NU HOU KULOKO.”]

SOME SOLDIERS SHOOTING MARBLES [PANAPANA HUA].—In the afternoon this Friday past, as we were enjoying ourselves, some of the King’s soldiers appeared before the entrance of our building and we went to see; they were playing marbles on the street and going seaward of our Establishment. We looked close to see what they were doing, and we said, “Oh my, their bodies are grown up, but they do the activity of children; it would seem as if the soldiers are taught marching along with how to play marbles [kinikini mabala].

(Kuokoa, 10/26/1867, p. 2)

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Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke VI, Helu 43, Aoao 2. Okatoba 26, 1867.

Jonah Kumalae gets contract to supply 250 ukulele per month, 1915.

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HIGH DEMAND FOR UKULELE.

From the news heard from San Francisco, the stringed instrument, the ukulele, is greatly desired all over America because thousands of visitors at the exposition at San Francisco saw and heard for themselves the ukulele being played.

Jonah Kumalae earlier had a contract to supply two hundred fifty ukulele a month to a company selling the musical instruments in San Francisco, but now the number has been increased to five hundred ukulele per month.

Because some people really wanted to see an ukulele being played, they requested to be taught to play that stringed instrument, and Kailimai was the one who provided instruction to some people. Continue reading →

Lei of the alii, 1930.

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EXQUISITE ILIMA LEI

You can obtain Ilima Lei expertly sewn by skilled hands, at number 2401 King Street, Moiliili, Honolulu.

This was the adornment of our alii in times past, and the other Lei were inferior to it.

Telephone number 91618

[This was the address and phone number of the Alakai o Hawaii newspaper itself, and I assume that the lei seller was editor Jonah Kumalae, who was quite the businessman.]

(Alakai o Hawaii, 1/23/1930, p. 1)

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Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Buke II, Helu 38, Aoao 1. Ianuari 23, 1930.

Mele for the Claudine, the vessel that carried the commission of annexationists to Washington DC, 1893.

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KELAUDINA SONG.

Kaulana mai nei Kelaudina
Ahailono o ka poe pakaha
Nau i lawe aku na komisina
O ke aupuni kuloko o Hawaii
Hopuhopualulu e ka hele’na
A na elele o ua aupuni nei
E ake ana e hookoia
Ka iini pakaha aina
Halawai aku nei lakou
Me kahi paele a Kalivilana Continue reading →