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Solano History 20 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.00 seconds. 
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Early Solano / Wichels, Ernest [784] [WICHELS-1964-784]
A common human weakness is to predict the future. Sometimes the vision we see in the crystal ball may, by coincidence, come true. The editor of the Vallejo Recorder, in July and August of 1867, published a series of articles on Solano County communities and speculated on their development.
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Early Schools About County / Wichels, Ernest [786] [WICHELS-1964-786]
Alfred W. Newman, a member of the governing body of Vallejo's Unified School District, presented a remarkable story of the public schools in this community at the November, 1963, meeting of the Solano County Historical Society.
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Graduates Of Early Vallejo / Wichels, Ernest [805] [WICHELS-1964-805]
Today, a high school education is basic. It is considered the very minimum training to face life's problems and challenges. This past week 540 young men and women were graduated from the Vallejo Senior High School; 348 from Hogan Senior High; a total of 888 for what is undoubtedly a record graduation for our city.
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How Early Editors Wrote / Wichels, Ernest [801] [WICHELS-1964-801]
One of' the Gibson Publications-the Evening Chronicle, is nearing Its 97th birthday. It was established as a weekly in the summer of 1867, just in time to give a running account of the progress of railroad construction proceeding from South Vallejo toward Marysville.
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Early Hospitals In The County / Wichels, Ernest [788] [WICHELS-1964-788]
Vallejo did not have a hospital until 1907! What did Vallejoans do for surgical and medical service, and for nursing care, during the early part of the past century?
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Problems Not New / Wichels, Ernest [783] [WICHELS-1964-783]
Too frequently we read of some "new" development to improve the economy; or hear someone wonder what has happened to modern youth; or see a reference to the shipyard "crisis." In reviewing the pages of one hundred years of Vallejo newspapers we come to the inevitable conclusion there is really nothing new.
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Earlier Days In August / Wichels, Ernest [813] [WICHELS-1964-813]
Vallejo and Mare Island share many August anniversaries. Not the least of these concern Admiral Farragut and his family. More about them later. Let's quickly review some of the other highlights-a few of these the present generation w ill remember; others were familiar to our great-grandfathers.
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Early Vallejo Race Tracks / Wichels, Ernest [806] [WICHELS-1964-806]
The Solano County Fair is here and the horses are running! This is a young Fair but many Solano and Napa residents may have the impression that racing is "new" to these counties. Have you ever heard of Vallejo's Hollywood Track, or Vallejo's Cyclodrome, or Napa's Race Track?
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Another Year Is History / Wichels, Ernest [779] [WICHELS-1964-779]
The year 1963 is now another page of the past. Much happened in tragedy, space science, international politics, the curb on nuclear testing, etc. Future historians will tell future generations what was important; we all are too close to the picture to make the appraisal today.
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A man of vision, Frisbie made a difference in Vallejo / Dingler, Nancy [689] [RETROSPECT-2007-689]
John Frisbie, the man responsible for the growth and development of the city of Vallejo in the mid-1850s, was a man of vision and ambition.
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