Comments from my Readers & Friends

1. Maybe her sister was excited about writing to Ms. Prott and decided to write EUREKA on the outside. But she was so excited she pressed down on the envelope so hard, when she was writing EUREKA!!! And she didn’t notice she had indented the envelope until after she had done it.

   1. That makes a lot of sense.

2. Has anyone realized that Glenora Jean Prott now lives in “Eureka” Avenue? Maybe G.J. in the previous letter asked, “What neighborhood should I move to? Only secretly write it so no enemies can read the street of my new house.” That way the sister would have replied, “Eureka” in a secret way.

   1. That is VERY imaginative, but I don’t think a nice, old lady like Glenora Jean Prott had enemies.

   2. You never know…she might have been a spy when she was young.

   3. That would be so cool to know someone who was a real spy!

3. I think that since she was dying she gave Glenora some of her treasures (eureka).

4. i think it said it because the person who finds it is all like “EUREKA I FOUND A !()( PENNY!!”

   1. can you guess what !()( is?

   2. I think it is an unhappy cyclops with a flat hat on sideways.

   3. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

   4. lol

5. Sorry,forgot the book. Had to re-read. Starting over:REWIND REWIND REWIND…
   Maybe it was written in Europe (close to Eureka)and they wrote it to someone like you back then. Never know. Anyways,I still think it was just a prank to one of their friends back then or so. Plus, Eureka Avenue now gives me an eerie feeling everytime I go down it for some reason…like somebody is watching me as I drive down the road…

   1. Eureka is nowhere close to Europe. You have a good imagination, but it sounds farfetched to me.

6. I think Eureka was indented because it was all just a little prank. Obviously,Eureka is something someone says when they have an idea,and maybe they were saying “Eureka! I’m going to pull a prank on the Mac & Cheese boy! (No offence)” And,like me,I write while I talk so while he/she was saying “Eureka” they accidently indented it in. Seems legit to me.

7. maybe when they (the prott sisters) were younger they made up a secret language and it was oppisits so eureka ment something bad, like someone was dying.(g. j. protts sister)

8. I think that the Eureka was in that letter because it was to make kids think that they had found some kind of treasure to make you rich.

   1. How could that be? The letter was written over 70 years ago. And how could they know it would be kids who’d find it?

9. cheesie i think it was from Eureka who sent the letter
   do you think so?

   1. Possibly. I don’t know.

10. Because it was eureka avenue

11. The lady vould have wrote a letter that said Eureka on it.

12. i think that since there is actually a place in california called eureka, the letter must have been mailed from there, probably for the emotional reason.

    1. Or maybe that’s where her sister actually lived.

13. I’m pretty sure it was either for the street name or to finish the coin collection.*

    *It could of meant ‘Eureaka! this coin finishes your coin collection!’ from g.j.protts sister. but since glenora lost it, she replaced it.

    1. I never thought of it being about finishing the collection. Wow! Good idea.

14. Euereka means i have found a amazing discovery so thats probs why it was there.

    1. Maybe, but what was the discovery?

15. i don’t know

16. I think it was dented there because it was Glenora’s address

    1. Yeah, maybe…but why wouldn’t the house number be next to the street name?

17. it means i have found it.there was this one guy who didn’t know how to measure mass so he slated (that’s a made up word. it’s a combo of slid and sat) in the bath tub and he notited how the water went up. so he rinted(that’s a mix between ran and sprinted)yelling eureka without putting his pirt (that’s a combo between shirt and pants)back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. That is hysterical the way you tell it! I love the words.

18. maybe Ms.Prott’s sister indented Eureka so’d she would remember the street but she indented it so no one else would know the street but she accidentally stuck it in the envelope.

    1. Hmmm. Very interesting idea.

19. maybe it was to tell you what street she lived on.

    1. Someone wrote that more than 50 years before I was born! It wasn’t a message for…for sure!

20. hello? eureka avenue? writing adress last? first put stuff in the letter. second close the envelope. last fill out info.

    1. my real name is justyn anyways

    2. i do not bother with cap.s

    3. I think it could happen in any order. People can address an envelope first or last.

21. It means i found something

22. OK, so apperently Eueka means “I have found it” (I just saw that down below :P) so since that person needed that coin for her collection her sister probably put that on it because she found it

    1. Good possibility! That could be the answer.

23. she might have had a great idea on her last note and wrote that word really dark

    1. That’s a neat idea. She wrote, “Eureka!”

24. i think (well i know) that the envalop (sorry dont know how to spell)says eurka because tit was sent from a place called Eureka

    1. you copied that from the book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

25. My theory is that June or shall I say Goon indented the letters on the paper to prank Cheesie and Georgie somehow. As for the penny she probably found it in her closet and put it in there just for a joke.

    1. Nope, couldn’t be. The envelope was never out of our possession. Goon could not have done that. She’s tricky, but not in this case.

26. i don’t know..i don’t have any ideas

27. I think maybe when she was looking for a new house she had a peice of paper on top of the envelope and wrote EUREKA on it to remember what street it was on….

    1. That’s very clever…except she already lived in the house on Eureka Street. The envelope was addressed there.

28. Back then people said eureka to tell you about something so the eureka there meant look out i mean for the penny.

    1. That sort of makes sense, but then why was it indented in the blank paper?

    2. Who knows really?

    3. It’s a mystery.

    4. Exactly, yes!

29. it means when you discover something new and your so excited

    1. Not exactly. That’s not what it MEANS. Eureka means (in Greek)…”I have found it.” I think what you meant to say was, “It’s what you SAY when you discover something new and you’re so excited.”

30. Maybe It was put there for a reason like a love note,because a heart is love,or maybe a strong bond supporting a low-on-money friend.
    or it couldve been rejected and rubbed off if you mark if hard enough.

    1. Interesting ideas. I don’t know…

31. Well the letter was sent form California, and “Eureka!” is the California state motto. I should know. I live there.

    1. That’s true about the motto, but that doesn’t explain why it was punched into the blank paper.

32. sorry i missplelt Cheesie!

33. I think it meant Eureka Avenue because the mailman was forgetful.

    1. But that doesn’t explain why it was sort of on the blank paper. I’m still confused.

    2. no idea cheeisie

34. Probably Eureka avenue… Or like saying eureka! I found an old coin! Not sure

    1. true

35. is dis actualy a tru story and how old are you in 2011?

36. Maybe it was dented because they had discovered a 1909 lincoln cent.

37. i think that it is because one of georgie’s parent didn’t want anyone to know what that part said.

38. Eureka is California’s motto, and it’s the street name, too, right? So maybe she just wrote it there for a lot of reasons.
    Your website is really cool!

    1. Thanks for the website compliment! I worked really hard on it. And got tons of help from my Aunt Brenda, who is an internet whiz!
       http://cheesiemack.com/family-tree/#brenda

       Eureka is the motto, and the street, AND a city in California. I agree. But why was it indented? I think I’ll never know.

39. THEY FOUNED THE EKLIS AND THE PENNNY THAT WAS LOST FO I GESS A VERY LONG TIME

40. Maybe, someone who knew her sister had connections to someone from the California gold rush mines. San Francisco came from an old boomtown, didn’t it?

41. I think that maybe when Ms. Prott’s sister was writing the note, she had the extra piece of blank paper under the note she wrote to Ms. Prott. Since you never saw the note the sister wrote, you don’t know what she had written. She may have said something about Eureka, and it had indented through the paper. That is my theory.

    1. That is very clever analysis. I like the theory. Lots of times I write on a pad and press hard enough to make a dent in the page below. Cool!

42. ask miss.prott about why Eureka was dented into the paper 🙂

43. she lived on Eureka Ave. duh!!!!!!!!

    1. I don’t think this is a “duh” question. The word was pressed into the paper that was inside the envelope. So it must’ve been written by someone other than G.J. Prott. Sure, it might refer to her street, but why?

44. I have no idea.But I am trying!

45. Well… she did live on Eureka Avenue… so… maybe she… wrote her street just in case? :/

46. the type writer ran out of ink.

47. ‘Eureka, I found it!’ Is the California state motto.

48. Maybe Ms. Prott wrote the adress down so that if she lost it and a person found it they would go to Eureka Ave.

49. maybe because she didnt want her sister to know it was her

50. maybe had to do with the sister being excited about the penny or maybe back in those days you had to put the address on the inside of the envelope.

    1. Those are two good theories. I never heard about “inside the envelope,” but maybe… I’ll ask Granpa.

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