Word: yreka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eureka! In Yreka, Calif., Mrs. Dorothy Hill, troutless after casting her entire collection of flies, plucked a pretty red hair from her companion's head, landed two beauties...
...Donna Mae is lucky-she is the first U.S. plague case to be treated with sulfadiazine and she will probably recover. Her doctor, Albert Newton of Yreka, tried it on the advice of Dr. Karl Meyer who has cured plague-infected animals with it in his University of California laboratory. (The drug has also been used on human plague in South America...
...Yreka, Calif., citizens of five counties "seceded" from Oregon and California, elected a Governor, held a torchlight parade, carried signs reading Our Roads Are Not Passable, Hardly Jackass-able (their grievance was that neither Oregon nor California built roads to tap their rich minerals). Conceived in the spirit of what-the-hell-is-going-on-here, and dedicated to the proposition that any publicity is good, the State of Jefferson expected no long history, but its citizens hoped to get their roads...