Word: eurekas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot is an adaptation from "A Pair of Sixes" and concerns two hard-boiled gents who are partners in the Eureka Garter Company. Garters mean models to show the garters off and models to show the garters off and models mean girlies, but the girlies don't mean anything. The only chance for a thriller in all this respectability is lost when you discover that these before mentioned models are all done up in muslin and that their bare backs are strung across with pink and white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until...
...born in Eureka, Nev., son of George Washington Baker, leading counsel of the Southern Pacific Railroad in days when emiment railroad lawyers were advised to carry guns. The baby University of Nevada and the slightly more sophisticated Leland Stanford University gave him his education. Then he went into the hills of his home to dig opulence. With flowing red tie and cartoon-hat, he was as good a miner as the rest-"the most fearless man who ever entered Funeral Range which guards Death Valley." is the title he acquired. He was one of the first into the Rawhide gold...
TINSEL?Charles Hanson Towne?Appleton ($2). Author Towne has been moved to chronicle a Midland social climber; how she scrambled as high as Newport and Palm Beach, barked her plump shins and returned at last to the shade of the family awning factory in Eureka. Her son, daughter and husband suffered in kind. The idea was to make it a gently humorous tale, and the Eureka Independence Day tableau starts things off well?Delia Nesbit, the awning queen, as Miss Columbia, and other Eureka dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas...
...Eureka," "Mizpah," "Mother Machree," "Jim, old boy, I am here...
...girl stenographer-ran his entire office. After four years of this, he proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead of it. The whole business has been built out of its extraordinary earnings. Five years ago, Wardell's five henchmen invested among...