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Mail-order business was plumb hard work / Delaplane, Kristin [342] [ECHOS-1997-342]
During the Depression Era . . . "The farmers weren't shipping much [...]
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Healing springs, fine hotels and plumbing / Delaplane, Kristin [311] [ECHOS-1996-311]
By October 1858, the Solano County Herald publisher, William J. Hooton, had managed to move his printing equipment by dray from Benicia to his offices in Suisun City located in a new building on the south side of the Plaza. This momentous move was made because of the county seat being situated in Fairfield. The publisher addressed this in the first edition from Suisun dated October 2.
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Hard-working Japanese find Vaca a magnet / Delaplane, Kristin [232] [ECHOS-1995-232]
Information for this story comes from the Vacaville Museum and Vacaville Heritage Council First of two parts In 1885 the Japanese government officially allowed emigration. In 1887 the first Japanese arrived in Vacaville, willing to work for very low wages. By 1896 there were 30 Japanese in Vacaville. Arichika Ikeda was born in 1864 in Niigata, Japan and was educated in medicine and agriculture [...]
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Great Depression caused hard times in Solano / Bowen, Jerry [825] [WAYITWAS-2008-825]
Today I saw an interesting front page from a United Kingdom newspaper, The Independent, showing a photo that may or may not be a modern soup line waiting for handouts. The headline blatantly shouts, "United States of America 2008; The Great Depression."
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Vaca businesses, families expanded in 1884 / Delaplane, Kristin [357] [ECHOS-1997-357]
The ladies in the Vaca and surrounding valleys had an opportunity when Miss Gardner began giving lessons in lace work. Her terms were $1 per lesson or $5 per term. She gave an exhibition of her talents at Platt's store.
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1887

F. H. Buck drying yard. Mostly apricots..
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Vaca business boomed during the late 1800s / Delaplane, Kristin [358] [ECHOS-1997-358]
The summer of 1884, the editor published a list of businesses in Vacaville:
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The Depression shuts down Big Camp / Delaplane, Kristin [328] [ECHOS-1997-328]
Born in China, Chun Tim arrived in San Francisco in 1871 at the age of 18. His role as a pioneer in the Suisun Valley was noted in the 1938 memoirs of Rosa Lee Baldwin who lived on a ranch near the A.T. Hatch Ranch where Chun Tim was the labor boss. " [...]
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Vaca street named after early builder / Delaplane, Kristin [323] [ECHOS-1997-323]
As a young man of 21, Peabody landed in Benicia in 1850 having made the trip on a clipper ship around The Horn. A carpenter by trade, he bought with him several frame houses and engaged in the business of selling and setting those houses to lots.
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Suisun City the business hot spot / Delaplane, Kristin [282] [ECHOS-1996-282]
Early businesses were a diversified lot in the mid-1800s. Suisun City was the place to be in Solano County if you were opening a business. Ferrell and Miller's was a general store in Suisun. It carried a line of furnishing goods, fancy and staple dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, caps, hardware, crockery, glassware and groceries.
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