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247 - Champions In Our Own Ways

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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Typhoid Is a Bacterial Infection

Typhoid is one of the 20 century's most terrifying killers, because an infection could spread through a house before anyone knew what was going on. In 19 o six did jitny did they have cars? It waint made of straw. Maybe a horse jitney. So long islands. Oyster bay is the tony playground of new york's rich and famous. Teddy fuck and roosevelt, none other than, had his summer white house there. And everyone freaks out when span of just one week, six of the 11 people in the home of a wealthy banker come down with typhoid fever.

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