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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.]

Ina oe ma Oahu nei, what you doing on Friday? Sepatemaba 21, 2018.

I took a tiny step away from the newspapers for a little bit, and dove into a modern composition. Where are you on Friday? Go check out this book opening, go. For more information, click on the book cover image below.

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Beryl Leolani Bailey weds Gary Loomis Blaich, 1968.

Beryl Bailey Is Bride Of Gary Loomis Blaich

Beryl Leolani Bailey, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Bailey, became the bride of Gary Loomis Blaich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Blaich, Thursday evening at Atherton Chapel, Central Union Church. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Crosby performed the ceremony in a setting of white Singapore plumeria, lawai and mock orange rope. The entrance was decorated with kahilis. Continue reading

Kamehameha Girls’ School Art Week, 1941.

Art Week Celebrated

FINISHING TOUCHES—Amelia Kaopua, president of the Kamehameha School for Girls’ student body, yesterday put finishing touches on her landscape preparatory to its entry in the Art Week show. Art Week began yesterday and will continue through Friday under the direction of Miss Evelyn Erickson, art instructor. (Advertiser Photo). Continue reading

Amelia Ana Kaopua weds Robert F. Bailey, 1946.

[Found under: “KAMAAINA KOLUMN: By Grace Tower Warren”]

OFFICER’S BRIDE, Mrs. Robert F. Bailey, who was Miss Amelia Ana Kaopua before her marriage.—Sam Mukaido photo.

Amelia Kaopua Is March Bride

In the tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints Miss Amelia Ana Kaopua, daughter of the late James Kaopua of Honolulu, was married to Lt. (jg) Robert F. Bailey, USNNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B.Bailey of Craigsville, W. Va., at 6:30 p.m. March 9. Continue reading

New newspaper, “Ka Momi o ka Pakipika”? 1898.

KA MOMI O KA PAKIPIKA.

A Weekly newspaper with enjoyable stories for the Hawaiian Home which are translated straight from very famous story books, and which will be printed with their very own pictures to adorn its delicate body for the benefit of the public, and it will be printed with some scholarly items. Continue reading

“Ka Leo o ka Lehulehu” weekly Hawaiian newspaper, 1912.

A NEW WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, “KA LEO O KA LEHULEHU”

There is a new weekly newspaper appearing in Hilo. We learned of this because the office of the treasury of the Territory received notice in the morning last Saturday, by that office receiving a letter explaining that a weekly newspaper, “Ka Leo o ka Lehulehu” was ready to be printed every Friday at the printing office of the Hawaii Herald Publishing Company. Continue reading

History of volcanic activities and why the newspapers need to be rescanned as clearly as possible, 1868–for the present, for the future.

[Found under: “Ke Ahi Pele Nui ma Hawaii. NA OLAI KUPINAI. KE KAI HOEE NUI! MAKE WELIWELI MA KAU! Na Palapala a na Makamaka mai Hawaii mai, eia iho malalo:”]

On Thursday at 3 in the afternoon, that being the 2nd of this April, there came a great powerful earthquake, and people could not stand upright, and so too the animals. The soil of the earth spew up into the sky like smoke and hills tumbled down; large trees fell, and some of the valleys were filled, and houses fell; the number of houses which fell numbered 30 or more; and 3 churches fell, the churches of Kahuku and Waiohinu and Punaluu; and there is a large pit at Kahuku that is 80 feet in circumference and 350 feet or more deep, and from within this pit rose steam like the steam of the volcanic crater; the distance from the port of Kaalualu to this pit is 6 miles or so; and there are many other deeds carried out by God. Continue reading