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Kauluwela School Lei Day program, 1948.
Kauluwela School May Day Program Is Scheduled
Folk dances, hulas, singing and a health pageant have been scheduled for Kauluwela school’s May Day program Wednesday.
The program begins at 10 a.m.
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May Day in Hilo, 1928.
Lei Day of a different sort this year… Stay safe everyone.
This 1st day of May is the day on which to go and visit the Bank of Hawaii, and to see the beautiful lei and flowers displayed on the tables prepared for this day for wearing lei.
(Ka Hoku o Hawaii, 5/1/1928, p. 2)
More on death of Louis Kauhi Poka, 1920.
[Found under: “AROUND THE CITY”]
Molder Passes Away—A victim of pneumonia, Louis Kauhi Poka, of 639 Mokauea Road, Kalihi, Continue reading
Passing of Lui Kauhi Poka, 1920.
A BUNDLE OF TEARS FOR MY DEAR HUSBAND LUI KAUHI POKA.
Mr. Solomon Hanohano, Aloha oe:—Please kindly give me some space of our spokesman, for my bundle of tears placed above, so that the many friends and family of my dear husband who live from where the sun appears at Kumukahi to where it sets at Lehua. Auwe, how dreadful.
With heavy heart I write about my dear companion, my man; my dear husband left me in the purple morning of the 15th of March and the spirit of my beloved man passed on silently and left the heavy burden for me to carry in this dispiriting world. Continue reading
Hilo weather a hundred years ago, 1920.
[Found under: “KELA AME KEIA”]
The sun once again is reigning here in Hilo. Continue reading
Different coverage of Ioane Ukeke performance, 1880.
[Found under: “BRIEF MENTION.”]
One of those delightful and chaste performances known as the “Hula” was presented to a dense and admiring audience at the Chinese Theatre on Saturday last. The illustrious reviver of this heathen dance, Mr. Ioane Ukeke, Continue reading
Ioane Ukeke competes against the Chinese, 1880
COMPETITION OF HAWAIIAN ENTERTAINMENTS
AND
Chinese Entertainments from China!
TO BE UNVEILED
THIS SATURDAY EVENING,
AT THE
CHINESE THEATER (HALE KEAKA PAKE).
IOANE UKEKE will put up Hawaiian Theatrics against the Chinese Thespians, and he will perform these mele with the intent he will prevail with those entertainments, they being the ones below:
Hula Paipu,
Hula Kalaau,
Hula Kui, Continue reading
Death of Gershom Kelekoma Waiau, 1920.
Rev. G. K. Waiau Passed On
On the 7th of the past April, our friend Rev. G. K. Waiau left this life and went on the path of no return.
He lived in Pauoa for a long time, and there he lived until he left his family and friends grieving for him.
Ke Alakai newspaper grieves with the family who is left without a father. Continue reading
History of Kawaiahao Church, 1885.
Are you watching what some of the influences of missionaries were on tv? 2020.
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KAWAIAHAO CHURCH
The readers of the Kuokoa will probably not be unable to recognize the features of the building pictured above; it is the church of Kawaiahao. It is an old building and one that is greatly beloved by a portion of our people, this mother church of ours. Its predecessor on these grounds was a church of pili grass; and the stone building was completed in 1842, constructed by the loving hands of the alii and makaainana of times gone by. It was Kekuanaoa and Bingham [Binamu] Sr. who selected the area where it was to be built and supervised its construction, however Bingham returned to America before the completion of this building.
There were many renowned events which were done in Kawaiahao such that it is as if the building was the place to carry out grand and fine deeds of the past, of the nation and the…
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