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Just another place that posts random articles from the Hawaiian Newspapers! It would be awesome if this should become a space where open discussions happen on all topics written about in those papers!! And please note that these are definitely not polished translations, but are just drafts!!! [This blog is not affiliated with any organization and receives no funding. Statements made here should in now way be seen as a reflection on other organizations or people. All errors in interpretation are my own.]

The passing of Mrs. Kahalepulu Kainoalau, 1894.

Set Aside Her Burdens.

My dear mother moved on [? newa] to the other world after 79 or more years in this world, she being Mrs. Kahalepulu Kainoalau, and she left me, her youngest child. There are many of us, and they did not see her last breath. She was born in North Kona, Hawaii of Kalapawai (m) and Hokii (f) Continue reading

Farmers Association of Taro and Kula Lands of Palolo and more, 1920.

RELISH FROM THE LILILEHUA RAIN OF PALOLO.

O Young captain, please insert into an open space of our budding pearl necklace this little relish [inamona], if there is open space, and that is this:

In the afternoon, at 2 p. m. on Thursday, the 4 of March, a special meeting of the Farmers Association of Taro and Kula Lands of Palolo [Ahahui Mahiai Kalo ame Kula o Palolo] was held at the home of the writer, to consider things that will benefit the group, and at that meeting, these things were approved to benefit the hui: Continue reading

Death of Mrs. Amika Keouli, 1921.

AFFECTION FOR MRS. AMIKA KEOULI

MRS. AMIKA KEOULI

Mr. Editor of the Kuokoa, Solomon Hanohano, Aloha oe:—I ask for you kindness for an open space o the pride of the lahui [the Kuokoa Newspaper], for my bundle of tears of sadness, that being my dearly beloved mama passing on the road of no return, it will be for you to speed to where the sun appears at Kumukahi all the way to Haehae where the sun sets, so that the family and friends will know that my mama is no more; she has gone, she sleeps on the road of no return. Auwe, the pain of my heart for my dear mama who has gone afar. I will no more hear the voice of my mama calling, “Nela, how will I drink some of your milk?” Auwe, how sad! Continue reading

Kahoohihi Alapa Dies at Iosepa, Utah, 1913.

Kahoohihi Alapa dies far away in Iosepa, Utah, on this day in 1913.

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MRS. KAHOOHIHI ALAPA HAS GONE.

Mr. Editor:—Please allow me some space for the sentence above, that being that Mrs. Kahoohihi Alapa has grown weary of this life.

On the morning of Monday, at 6 o’clock on the 3rd of March, the Angel of God visited and took the soul from the body of our beloved Mrs. Kahoohihi Alapa. Auwe aloha wale!

She left her her feeble husband and their children and family. They have four daughters from their loins, and she left this life.

She was sick along with her husband for a week, she had lower back pains, and she was also pregnant, she was distressed along with being inflicted by smallpox [hepera], which is a sickness that is quarantined, so no one would enter to help them; they would have been in terrible trouble were it not for that male cousin of Kahoohihi’s [kaikunane hanauna ?], that being…

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A plea from William K. Hussey, 1932.

LOOKING FOR HELP SO SOME HAWAIIANS IN TROUBLE CAN ARRIVE IN THEIR PLACE OF BIRTH

There was a letter written by W. K. Hussey, a old member of the territorial legislature, but he was a member of the British military in the great war of the world, to the Advertiser newspaper, asking for some assistance from Hawaii for a means for three troubled Hawaiians to return to Hawaii nei. Continue reading