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City Photo, 10th anniversary, 1922.

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Announcing the
Tenth Anniversary
of the
City Photo CO.

PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Mr. On Char, in 1912, started the City Photo Co. His first advent into the photographic field was in 1904 when he entered the employ of the Rice & Perkins Studio of this city.

In 1920, Mr. Char went to the mainland to take up a post graduate course at The New York Institute of Photography and upon his return rejoined this concern. Mr. Char is a member of the Photographers’ Association of America. Continue reading →

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Sale of Kauai rice plantation, 1905.

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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that we the undersigned have sold our Rice Plantation at Hanalei, Island of Kauai, to Man Sing Company, Ltd.

MAN SANG CO.,

By  CHANG POO LEONG
Manager.

Dated April 11, 1905.

(Kuokoa, 4/21/1905, p. 8)

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Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLIII, Helu 16, Aoao 8. Aperila 21, 1905.

Iosua Manoha sells kulolo in Laie, 1918.

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[Found under: “NA HUNAHUNA MEAHOU O LAIE.”]

This Saturday morning, the 23rd of March, 1918, Mr. Iosua Manoha went peddling his tins of kulolo upon his handcart at the gates of the houses here in Laie, shouting, “Kulolo! Kulolo! Half gifted! It is as rich as pig fat; it exudes fat. How youthful, kulolo baking boy of Kauai.

[Moni ka haae!]

(Kuokoa, 4/5/1918, p. 3)

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Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke LVI, Helu 14, Aoao 3. Aperila 5, 1918.