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one summer people in the warren household contracted typhoid fever. it was associated with poor, unsanitary conditions, not the rich and famous playground of oyster bay. a sanitary engineer was hired to investigate and discover the cause. it wasn t the area s fresh water clams as he first thought, it was mary, the cook, who had worked for the wealthy warren family weeks before the outbreak. he also found that seven families that she had cooked for had reported cases of typhoid fever as well which resulted in the infection of 22 people and the death of one girl. mary malen would soon be known as the first asymptomatic carrier of the typhoid infection ever recorded, a carrier so deadly in part due to a failure to properly wash her hands after going to the bathroom yuck but also because despite being warned that she could be the carrier she just kept right on
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East Bay s historic ghost signs: How some recent discoveries led to a new urban exploration project
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At left, the remains of an ad for Belfast Old Fashioned Mug Root Beer near the Fruitvale BART station, after it was uncovered in 2019. At right is the sign after it was restored, from Kasey Smith s Instagram.Kasey Smith / Instagram
After nine years of enthusiastically seeking out hundreds of San Francisco’s forgotten signs on busy streets and in narrow alleys, Kasey Smith was unsure about what to do next with her urban-exploration project.
That’s when changes to the world and her Oakland neighborhood led to her to move it to the East Bay. This time, she’s bringing everyone in on the project.
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WARREN Trumbull County commissioners said they will not entertain a request from county Engineer Randy Smith to be reinstated as sanitary engineer.
As the elected Trumbull County engineer, Smith heads the highway department. For about five years, commissioners also placed Smith in the position of sanitary engineer, an appointed post heading up the county’s sanitary department. In November, however, commissioners moved to replace him with deputy sanitary engineer, Gary Newbrough.
Smith wrote a letter to commissioners asking to be reinstated and appears to threaten litigation if he is not. The letter also requests an investigation into personnel matters at the sanitary engineer’s office, complains about conversations last year with commissioners Mauro Cantalamessa and Frank Fuda, and dredges up complaints about an attorney he used in the highway department who still works for the sanitary engineer’s department.