Civil Service Commission reshaped with new permanent lineup
Special Correspondent reports on the Civil Service Commission replacing two members with John H. Oberly of Illinois and Charles Lyman of Connecticut, aiming to form a permanent body. Details cover their backgrounds, prior roles, and links to reform efforts and civil service progress.
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Civil Service Commission
Wasninates
John H. Oberly
Ilinois
Charles Lyman
Connecticut
William L. Trenholm
Dorman B. Eaton
Alfred P. Edgerton
New England States
Stanton
Treasury Department
Civil Service Examiners
Arthur
Lyman
Civil Service Board
Gen
Grant
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Alexander Schaeffer
Schaefferstown
Lebanon County
Cincinnati
Oberlys
Wooster
Ohio
Oberly
Memphis
Tenn
Cullom
Railroad Commission
Democratic State Committee
Cleveland
Trenholm
Commission
Civil Service
Treasury
Bankers
Chicago
Lamar
Labor Bureau
Perry Barry
Chess and Supper as Mental Board Play
After Steinitz and Zukertort finished their ninth game they continued a playful mental chess at the table, trading phrases and moves while dining. Steinitz explains he sees the board clearly in his mind and can perform many blindfold games, even sixteen, with no mental limit.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood
The
Peter M. Arthur
Cleveland
Steinitz
Zukertort
Bishop's Square
St. Louis Republican
Prize of a Thousand Ducats for Safer Blasting Methods
The Vienna Gazette offers 1000 ducats to inventors for the best method to reduce danger in blasting in coal mines subject to fire damp or to eliminate gunpowder or dynamite in such work. Send proposals to Vienna director of mines. submissions due by end of 1886. Kansas City Journal.
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Vienna Gazette
Ostran
Vienna
Kansas City Journal
Patti to Become Princess After Marriage, Says Paris Gaulois
The Paris Gaulois cites its source claiming Mme Adelina Patti will be a princess after marrying M. Nicolini who will be made a prince by a foreign chancery. Patti, already a marchioness by her first husband, seeks princess status on a second marriage.
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Mme
Adelina Patti
M. Nicolini
Paris Gaulois
Nicolini
Inter Ocean
The Profits of a Disestablishment
The piece notes that disestablishing the Church of England could free $917,500,000 in funds with after compensation payouts a net gain of $500,000,000 according to the Chicago Herald. It also mentions limited natural harbors between New York and the Gulf of Mexico with depths exceeding sixteen feet.
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Church of England
Chicago Herald
New York
Gulf
Gulf of Mexico
St Louis Holds Valuable Numismatic Rarity Worth 50000 Francs
A local description notes St Louis possesses a famed numismatic curiosity valued at 50000 francs or about 10000 dollars. In other notes the Bavarian Alps marksmen are praised as top shooters after the Boers, and the widow of Gen Santa Anna lives out her years in Mexico in a rocking chair while smoking cigarettes.
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St. Louis
Gen. Santa Anna
Mexico
Odds and Ends from a Prairie Newspaper
A collage of anecdotes and ads from a midwestern paper notes medical cures from Shiloh’s Cure and Shiloh’s Vitalizer, relic displays from Perry Iowa, a jibe about wives wardrobe value, a tale of zouaves at war, local politics, a Kansas portrait of beauty, poetry by Longfellow lines found in a deceased author’s papers, a Daw son County lyceum fistfight, and a schoolroom mispronunciation anecdote.
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Washington
Aamous Commission
WM. L. Trenholm
Sophocles
Harvard College
Theodophilus
Christ
Harvard
Boston
Armenia
Vamberg
Felix L. Oswald
Patti
Hicks Beach
Lord Randolph Churchill
Richard Cross
Lord Carnarvon
Lord Derby
Chicago Times
Paris
Cor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bavarian Alps
Detroit Journal
Shiloh
J. F. Fezer
Fremont Young Ladies’ Protective Association
Omaha Bee
Perry
Iowa
John Bish
Rippy
Iowa Volunteers
Champion Hill
Fire Department
City of
Secretary of War
Zouaves
Ben
Perley Poore
Croup
Kansas
Geo. H. Thayer
Bourbon, Ind
Fairview Precinct
Dawson County
Lyceum
John
Clincman
Clingman Tobacco
Kchlow
Beyer
Clingman Tobacco Care
Clingman Tobacco Cuke CO
Durham
WN. C
U.S. A
J. J. Reithman & CO
Denver
Colorado
Joseph Joyce
Maple Street
Greeley
Colo
T. C. Morley
Corona
Platte River
Randolph, Kansas
San Luis Valley
United States
Senate
Opera House
San Luis
Land and Loan Co
J F. Bronx
F. J. W. Sxirr
J. W. Barrkows
Pres. Sec'y. Treas
Oteow
Old Reliable Drug House
Haney
J. &. Peter
Abbott & Miner
Oasis
6Th Street
7Th Ave
Greenlee & CO
Denver, Colorado
E. Brooks
America
Harvey
Parker's
Artifi
H. A. Ancuer
M.D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Soran
Tax Centaur Company
Fulton Street, N. Y
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