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We Conquered Recession - Now It's Inflation / Rico, John [923] [RICO-1979-923]
IT COULD NOT HAPPEN HERE - Back in the period between 1920 and 1930, economic conditions in the United States were at boom stage. In fact everything was hunky-dory.
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Inflation Poses Problem for Vaca Retirees / Rico, John [909] [RICO-1979-909]
MAYBE, PERHAPS, IF, AND BUT - I don't know how much confidence you can place in learned economists, but nevertheless, some of their utterances make good food for conversation. As a guest of Obie Ladd and his Heart Federal Savings, I had an opportunity to listen to remarks by noted economist, Ezra Solomon, who hangs out at Stanford University, He addressed a large group at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
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Remember When a Day's Pay Was $1.25? / Rico, John [911] [RICO-1979-911]
LET'S TALK INFLATION - If you noted the following prices in today's newspaper, you would know someone was out on a lark and wanting to have some fun. But, these prices actually appeared in advertisements in The Reporter back in 1932: pound of coffee 19c, loaf of bread 10c, pound of beef stew 9c, pound of bacon 14c, fresh pumpkin pie 15c, head of lettuce 4c, can of olives 9c, pound of butter 22c, bunch of vegetables 2c, a pack of cigarettes 10c, and you could send Junior to the Vacaville Theatre for 10c. That all added up to $1.24.
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Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun - People County / Rico, John [902] [RICO-1981-902]
AND AWAY WE GROW- Years ago, in fact in 1910, when Vacaville residents traveled to San Francisco using old Highway 40, they needed to be alert in passing through Fairfield else they would have missed the few buildings there marking that hamlet. The population of Fairfield in 1910 was 834, and although Vacaville at that time was no booming metropolis, it claimed a population of 1177. Many Vacaville resident, seeking merchandise and services in those days gone by, would travel to nearby Suisun, which had more to offer than did Vacaville or Fairfield. But, look what's happened since those days.
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Reporter's Writers Now Have Added Chores / Rico, John [896] [RICO-1981-896]
THE COMPUTER AGE IS NOT FOR ME - When I started to set type back in 1924, and doing my small bit to help produce the Vacaville Reporter, little thought did I give to that day in 1981 when Publisher Richard Rico would unwrap a new typesetting system which is not in my bag of endeavors.
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Old stone bridge over Putah Creek at the south end of Berryessa Valley, now under the lake. The creek was at flood stage..
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Mr. 'Big' Running Rampant Across USA / Rico, John [884] [RICO-1981-884]
BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG EVERYTHING - In order to place this article in its proper perspective, it is necessary to go back about 50 years, and delve lightly on the economic situations which prevailed not only in the United States but around the world.
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What Would Happen Without the American Farmer / Rico, John [941] [RICO-1978-941]
UNCLE SAM'S BACKBONE - When Edwin Markham walked from his Lagoon Valley home to the schools in Vacaville before the turn of the century, he saw first-hand the toiling farmers in the area, which no doubt inspired him in later years to write his immortal poem, "The Man With the Hoe."
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Once-Primitive Vacaville Has Changed / Rico, John [937] [RICO-1979-937]
NOT TOO LONG AGO - JUST 100 YEARS - Back in 1879, Wood, Alley and Co. of Oakland published what is perhaps the most comprehensive history of Solano County ever assembled up to that era. Historian J. P [...]
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June Was a Hot Month - More to Come / Rico, John [885] [RICO-1981-885]
THERE ARE FIGURES AND MORE FIGURES - Everyone talks about the. weather but no one can do anything about it. That's what has happened here in the month of June. The weather during the past 30 days has drawn about as much front page publicity as did the economic situation across the nation.
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