Word: honolulu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brigadier General, U. S. A. Honolulu...
...lack of a reliable guide book was met last Fall through publication by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin of a very complete tourist guide titled All About Hawaii, very amply illustrated with photographs, maps and tables, carrying also historic and contemporary facts and statistics...
Rock Island, Davenport. Moäne; Sea Scout's Mother Sirs: Being a kamaiina myself, I found your ac count of Honolulu families very interesting, and I would like to add the following. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Judd, was the first white woman born in the Hawaiian Islands. She married Captain S. G. Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving...
Lorrain A. Thurston, publisher of the Honolulu Advertiser, was one of the commissioners who brought about the final annexation of the Islands...
...conduct of its chief tycoon typifies the Islands' democracy. When he goes into a Honolulu shop to buy a new hat, the clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse...