Shameful Exhibition.—On Saturday evening last, an exhibition of the hula dance was given at the Theater—the first of the kind ever publicly attempted here. Continue reading
Shameful exhibition? 1862.
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The beginnings of the Merrie Monarch Festival, 1964.
Hilo Plans Gay Events For Kalakaua Festival
By WALT SOUTHWARD
Advertiser Staff Writer
HILO — A parade, with Duke Kahanamoku as grand marshal.
A relay race, with boys using fresh mullet as batons.
A beard contest, with some 50 entrants expected.
A bicycle race, from Kohala to Hilo.
A town, done over in the era of Hawaii’s “Merry Monarch,” King Kalakaua.
These are just a few of the things being set up as Hilo goes into the final weeks of preparation for its “Merry Monarch Festival,” scheduled to take place here from April 1 to 4. Continue reading
Sachs hats opens earlier that year, 1902.
[Found under: “LOCAL AND GENERAL”]
King Kalakaua and Princess Kaiulani hat pins are given away with hats at the millinery opening, at Sachs’ Dry Goods Co.
(Evening Bulletin, 3/13/1902, p. 2)
Evening Bulletin, Volume X, Number 2094, Page 2. March 13, 1902.
Easter hats and such, 1902.
GRAND OPENING OF HATS
AT
N. S. SACHS DRY GOODS CO.
Honolulu, Fort Street
Easter Hats Easter Hats
Just recently opened to display, are Hats good for Easter, for girls and women of all sorts of fashions [paikini]
Given Away
At our big sale of Hats being held, King Kamehameha, Kalakaua, and Kaiulani Hat Pins given away. Continue reading
Herbert Low heads home to Hilo, 1936.
RETURNS FROM SCHOOL
Herbert Low, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Low, of Hilo, who is a student at Kamehameha school, arrived in Hilo on Saturday’s steamer to spend his Easter vacation.
(Hoku o Hawaii, 4/1/1936, p. 1)
(Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 37, Aoao 1. April 1, 1936.
Mary Kawena Pukui, 1983.
KAWENA
Guardian of the Hawaiian Language
By Helen Altonn, Star-Bulletin Writer
SAMUEL H. Elbert vividly recalls the first time he met Mary Kawena Pukui. “She had a flower in her hair and she just captivated me.”
That was in 1937, on the top floor of the Bishop Museum. Pukui, affectionately called Kawena, had just joined the staff as a translator. She was working with E. S. C. Handy, an ethnologist, on a book entitled “Polynesian Family System at Kaʻu,” the Big Island home of her Hawaiian mother’s family. Continue reading
A mele by Kalakaua for different kinds of dancing, 1872.
Hawaiian dogs, 1862.
News Pertaining to Hawaiian Dogs.
I send you some news; that is news about dogs from Hawaii nei. We are used to hearing about and seeing haole who have smart dogs that obey their words, but when I saw this, these Hawaiian dogs as well, they are clever dogs. Continue reading
Neutrality proclamation reaches France, 1854.
This was found on Gallica at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k450316j/f1.image
Journal Des Débats: Politiques Et Littéraires, Page 2. October 2, 1854.
Neutrality announced in Britain, 1854.
[Found under: “SANDWICH ISLANDS.”]
—”Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands.
“Be it known to all whom it may concern, that we, Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands, hereby proclaim our entire neutrality in the war now pending between the great maritime powers of Europe; that our neutrality is to be respected by all belligerents to the full extent of our jurisdiction, which by our fundamental laws is to the distance of one marine league, surrounding each of our islands of Hawaii, Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahii, Kauai and Niihau, Continue reading
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