I forgot to mention when I posted the nupepa calendar for this year, that we shouldn’t forget to order the Hawaiian Historical Society Calendar. It is filled with historic happenings for practically each day of the month! And for every month there is a classic image to boot. For more information, click here.
Awa Shop in Waianae Closed.—This past Tuesday, the Awa Shop of Kihikihi folks at the place mentioned above closed. Continue reading
I will give that money award to anyone who gets an Arrest Warrant and testifies before the Circuit Court Judge against the person or persons who,
SECRETLY SELL AWA,
in the District of Ewa and Waianae, and not at my Awa Shop in Waianae, Oahu.
William PINEHASA WOOD.
Singing Voices in Kaneohe.—When we took a short trip to Kaneohe, our ears were given joy when we heard resounding singers at that country bower, Continue reading
New Firebrand Hill.—W. D. Kaipoleimanu of Hanamaulu writes to proclaim his witnessing of the hurling of firebrands atop a new tall hill named Nanaau. Continue reading
While Miss Lucy Ward was driving an automobile, containing besides herself Miss Kulamanu Ward, Miss Mabel Phillips and Curtis W. Hustace, out of the Old Plantation gateway on Friday evening, Continue reading
Dragged along by a streetcar was automobile Number 862, driven by Miss Lucy Ward, for 36 feet, on King Street this past Friday. While she was stopped outside of the coconut grove of Kapepee, near Thomas Square [Kamaki Kuea], Continue reading
Go look outside tonight, the moon is painted red once again!
Pertaining to the lunar eclipse. On the 17th of January, at 2:25 and 35 seconds in the morning, one body affected another body in the heavens, and its color turned strange, and we adults and children here in Lihue witnessed it; and here is my bit of humor, someone said: “The moon has been eaten by God.” And another said, “The moon was painted red with red paint by God.” And there was a lot of new things spoken of on that night, but I cannot carry on about that.
[This article and another was written under the heading “From Kauai,” by S. K. Kahookalaopio of Lihue, Kauai, on January 19, 1870.]
(Kuokoa, 1/29/1870, p. 4)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke IX, Helu 5, Aoao 4. Ianuari 29, 1870.
Travelled to Waikapu.—In the evening of this past Monday, C. P. Ward (Kapepee), the Supervisor of the Government Warehouses [Luna Hale Papaa o ke Aupuni], Continue reading
Hawaiian Kaaos and Meles.—In the native papers published in Honolulu, there frequently appear old compositions by the native poets and historians, which would be highly interesting if translated. the late Judge Andrews, the the preface to his “Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language,” says, Continue reading
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