How is news that is not coming from newspapers or tv news being archived today? There are so many other outlets through which we get our news now. Who is archiving it all? What are they archiving (and not archiving)? Why are they archiving? How are these archives accessible?
In the midday of this 9th of August, G. B. Rowell and the church members who followed him went into the Church of Waimea with new locks to shut the doors of the Church so that it could not be entered with the old keys in our possession, until our meeting hour, at 1:30, when I went to ring our meeting bell; the doors were locked and people were on guard from inside, with the doors locked; and I said, “open the doors you guys so that I can come in to ring our bell.” Kahele and Luka, the heads of Rowell’s church refused. Continue reading
This past Thursday, a Whaling Ship came in, with some men from the ships that were captured by the ship Shenandoah [Kenadoa]. It brought the victims of the ships which were burned. They were 52 in total, and four of them were taken to the Hospital. These are their names: Continue reading
Our “Query” of last week has received a response from one of the Government organs, a reply however by no means satisfactory.
The fling is entirely amiss, that we are not acting the part of Hawaiians, but of Americans, in speaking of this nation as weak, and its acts as having no great effect abroad.It is because we love Hawaii, weak as she is, that wewould have her for her own sake avoid following the bad example of other nations, and would also have her prompt in following their good examples. Continue reading
Newspapers!
The newspapers are someplace we should be looking at for other ways to look at Hawaiian history.
Newspapers, unlike books were relatively easy to come by (whether it was by subscription, or by sharing with a neighbor).
Most people could not afford to publish books, but many people had the means to purchase pen and paper and envelope and stamp, so that they could send in their thoughts to be printed. And many in fact did. They wanted the truth as they knew it to be known by all. And because newspapers were printed regularly, it was easy to immediately comment on errors appearing in the pages of the paper. There are often heated debates over everything and anything from genealogy, to mele, to why you should not lend money to that man or woman who left a marriage bed. These debates not only took place in a single newspaper…
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Old Newspapers.—Many people take Newspapers, but few preserve them, yet the most interesting reading imaginable, is a file of old newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all its bustle and every day affairs, and marks its genius and its spirit more than the most labored description of the historian. Continue reading
Hawaiians Abroad—By the last mail was received from Boise City, Idaho Territory, Continue reading
James R. Holt and Harry Auld sailed for San Francisco this past Monday with the intent to be educated at the Business College of Mr. Heald of San Francisco. Continue reading
Rights of Native Hawaiians in California.—The San Francisco Mirror of a recent date makes the following remarks on the rights accorded to Hawaiians in that State. The same rules apply to Oregon and Washington Territory: Continue reading
Letter from California.—We have a letter from California written by L. H. Kapua, talking about them being overcome by calamity at the river of Tuolumne. Three of them died: Miss Hana Keinonui, Aarona Kealaia, and J. Huli. Continue reading
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