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New blog from the folks who bring the Hawaii newspapers to Chronicling America, 2013.
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I just came across this new (as of summer 2013) blog from the Hawaii Digital Newspaper Project. They are the ones who take care of the Hawaii newspapers on Chronicling America. On the blog are posts about the progress of the project itself, as well as random articles from the English-language newspapers. I am looking forward to see what they find in the future about the past!
La Kuokoa information and more… 1700–1999.
For those of you interested, i came across this British Newspaper Archive site. It is unfortunately not free access. But if you want to know what their newspapers were saying about Haalilio and Richards and Paulet and Charlton as it all was going down (or other events that occurred between 1700–1999), it might be worth paying the subscription. Here for example there seem to be some four-thousand articles in the 1840s found using the search term “Sandwich Islands”:
And for the same period, there are five hits for “Haalilio”:
[Being that it is a pay for view site, i don’t believe that i would be able to repost articles found there even if i spent the money for a subscription myself…]
Speaking of Prendergast… 2013.
It is good to know if you are doing research on this name that the Hawaiianized version of Prendergast is Penikalaka. I am looking for a site that will host a database that will give alternate names for historical people, like Armstrong is Limaikaika, or Lincoln McCandless is Lina or Linekona Eliwai, and so forth. It would also be ideal if people could add to this list with a citation of where they found the alternate name. This would make for better/easier research in Hawaiian-language material, not just in newspapers.
Ka Pua Hau o Maleka, just plain illegible, 1910.
KA PUA HAU O MALEKA
Auhea wale ana oe
E ka pua hau o Maleka
……..
……..
[The Hawaiian-Language Newspapers need desperately to be rescanned clearly so they can be read. Words that cannot be read are worthless.]
(Kuokoa, 4/8/1910, p. 8)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVII, Helu 14, Aoao 8. Aperila 8, 1910.
Ka Pua Hau o Maleka, difficult to read… 1896.
KA PUA HAU O MALEKA
(This is the first Mele that Victoria Kamamalu composed).
Auhea wale ana oe
E ka Pua hau o Maleka
Ke au nei ka manao
Pehea o Niagara
Kela wai kamahao
Wai halulu i ka moana
Nana i na moku
Lohe aku nei Rusia
Aohe i hopo Ladana
I ka nui o Asia
Hue aku ka moana nui
Laki ka moana Iniana
Ehuehu o Enelani
Ke kowa Setokia
Aiala oe e Parau
No’u o Aina Hau
A ka wai o Norewai
Pau mai kou palena
Ilaila au la oki
Lawe au la Linohau
A ai ka manu iluna
U—hoi o ka ihu ia.
[This newspaper is not very easy to read online. Hopefully it will be rescanned soon.]
(Nupepa Ka Oiaio, puka pule, 2/7/1896, p. 4)
Nupepa Ka Oiaio (puka pule), Buke VII, Helu 50, Aoao 4. Feberuari 7, 1896.
More on Nupepa Elele and its missing pages, 2013.
Nupepa Elele. Missing Issues.
I did a quick spreadsheet on the currently missing issues of Nupepa Elele. If we consider that each issue comprised of four pages, that would mean at this point, with approximately 561 issues missing of a total of 663 issues, that we are without information printed on 2,244 pages running from 1879 to 1892! These issues could be somewhere in these islands, or far, far away. Spread the word that we are looking for Hawaiian newspapers. More newspaper pages would give a clearer view of history/histories. Perhaps some day, i will complete one of these spreadsheets for each of the Hawaiian-Language Newspapers, showing what is available now, and what is missing.
[It is also unfortunate that a number of the issues of Nupepa Elele that do exist today are torn and taped, and in general are badly digitized, so if you are looking at them online, they are difficult (or simply impossible) to read!]
Click below for an overview of what issues of Nupepa Elele are currently extant (in black), and what is not (in red).
Nupepa Elele
Missing newspapers leave holes in histories, 1881.
[Found under: “LOCAL NEWS”]
We have received from P. R. Holi of Kauai, a response to the Elele, and what it published about him; this is his response which we accepted with great import: It is true, it was my friend and I who brought Kamahueeu, a person inflicted with leprosy [mai pake], and some other sick ones from Hanapepe without any problem to Lihue to the Sheriff [Makai nui], and then after completing this duty for him, I returned home; it was not me who caused him harm, it was some other officer; therefore, the Elele was totally misdirected in its publishing this, and the one who wrote the story was mistaken.
[Hopefully the missing years of the newspaper “Ka Nupepa Elele” (1879–1885), which includes the year the article referred to here appears, will not be missing forever! Might anyone have any ideas where these might be found?
It also should be noted that responding to a news article appearing in one newspaper in another paper like the response above, was a very common practice.]
(Kuokoa, 11/26/1881, p. 3)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XX, Helu 48, Aoao 3. Novemaba 26, 1881.
Faith, Hope, Love, and Tradition, 1874.
The Key to open the door of heaven, and all of its rooms.
Keys are important. You go somewhere, and see a beautiful structure, perhaps it is a church, or a home, a store, or a building filled with wonderful things. And you want to enter into these buildings. The doors however are locked. You have no Key to open the doors. You are not given the key. You can obtain key if you ask of the Owner, and they perhaps will accompany you and let you in.
We have heard that there is a beautiful city up above, with its lovely houses filled with many great wonderful things. And should one want to enter into this city after they die. They cannot enter should they be without the key. What is this key? It is this, Aloha. There are three great things: faith [manaoio], hope [manaolana], and love [aloha]; but aloha is the greatest of all things.
Are you heading, O Friend, for heaven, with faith and hope, while believing that with these things you will open up the door of heaven and enter within? You can’t with just those two things, without Aloha.
Aloha is the single golden key that can open the door of heaven. Faith and hope are keys that can open some of the houses here in this world. With these keys, you perhaps have entered Churches down here.
However, should you be without true aloha, you shall not enter into heaven. Do you possess this great key? Aloha? Here are the signs that you have it:
1. You uphold the commandments of Jesus.
2. You listen to the words of the teachers, the church pastor, and you do what is righteous as per their desires and you don’t do what is wrong as per their desires.
4. Give more aloha to those who give you little aloha.
5. To cease totally begrudging others.
6. Set aside slander, gossip, and hearsay.
7. Do good always and never do bad.
Should we have these seven signs, we may perhaps be in possession of true aloha, the single golden key that can open the door of heaven, and we will be allowed within. HAWAII.
[It is also interesting to note that while the Bible was being translated into the Hawaiian Language, Hawaiians of course traditionally had the word, “Aloha.” As for “Manaolana” and “Manaoio,” (and “enemi” [enemy] as well), those had to be made up just for the Bible. See “No ka unuhi ana i ka Palapala Hemolele iloko o ka Olelo Hawaii.” Hae Hawaii, Iulai 8, 1857, 57–58.]
(Kuokoa, 5/16/1874, p. 4)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XIII, Helu 20, Aoao 4. Mei 16, 1874.
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