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100 years ago in 1923
Hundreds of Warren homes were being supplied with milk that tested low in butterfat content, the city health board learned at its regular meeting.
Tests made by Sanitary Policeman Lyle A. Biddlestone on samples taken from 23 local dealers showed four of the samples came in at 3 percent butterfat, which was the minimum prescribed by Ohio law. If the test had showed a tenth of one percent less, the dealers would have been liable to arrest.
Eleven others showed less than 4 percent in butterfat content and three samples tested 4.0 percent. Only five of the 23 tested more than 4 percent butterfat and one reached the high percentage of 5.0.
50 years ago in 1973
Mrs. Bell C. Viney, the county's only female high school principal and one of but a few female public school educators to hold the position or its equivalent, announced she would retire from Bloomfield High School at the end of the school year.
A Mesopotamia native and Bloomfield resident, Viney had been teaching for 27 years full time and also had 16 years of substitute instruction years to her credit.
Just as "peculiar" describes her 10-year combination task of administering and teaching three to four hours a day, so does it fittingly characterize her manner of job promotion.
She said, "I never asked for the job, it came to me," and noted her principalship began unofficially in the late 1950s when Superintendent Harold Wisman told her to "take charge" when he was to be "out" for the day. For a few years after she was simply an overseer in the superintendent's absence, but by 1962 the system's first high school principal had her own office.
25 years ago in 1998
Summerlike weather arrived early and put contractors at least two weeks ahead of schedule on the long-anticipated and oft-postponed Niles Main Street paving and resignaling project.
"The weather allowed us to complete a lot of the signal work already," said Phil Crish, area construction engineer for the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Crish said he expected the project contractor, Thomas Pallotta and Sons of Youngstown, to begin construction on the $842,000 project in late April. The project, originally targeted for March 15, 1997, completion, was pushed back four times over the intervening year.
10 years ago in 2013
Trumbull County ranked 71st out of Ohio's 88 counties in overall health, according to findings in a national program. That was down from 66th the previous year.
Neighboring counties fared better: Geauga, first; Portage, 20th; Stark, 39th; Columbiana, 50th; and Ashtabula, 60th. The Unhealthiest county in the rankings was Scioto.
The rankings were based on a combination of various county statistics -- from the prevalence of excessive drinking to the availability of clinics and the volume of violent crimes. Those and other factors were analyzed to determine the quality of life and mortality rates within each county.
While overall findings wavered slightly from the year before, Trumbull County had dropped significantly in its overall health rank, with an estimated 8.47 out of every 100 people dying prematurely -- before the age of 75 -- and 18 percent of the population living with poor or fair health.
-- Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Allie Vugrincic.