State Civil Service exam notices and positions offered
The notice lists examinations for February 16 1918 open to U S citizens in Illinois with deadlines February 9 1918. Positions include Housefather Housemother Inspector Florist Stationary Engineer Stock Cutter Wonder of the Blind Kindergarten Teacher Primary Teacher Advanced Teacher Principal and Physical Culture Teacher among others with salaries from 25 to 183.33 per month and maintenance. Requirements include age 21 25 and above, training experience and passing grades on written and oral tests. Applications addressed to the State Civil Service Commission Springfield Illinois.
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Sinatsea State Civil Service Commission
Springfield
United States
Illnois
Office of the Commission
Alton
Anna
Carbondale
Charleston
Chicago
DeKalb
East Moline
East St. Louis
Elgin
Jacksonville
Kankakee
Lincoln
Macomb
Mt. Vernon
Normal
Peoria
Quincy
Pontiac
Urbana
Housecfather
Geneva
St. Charles
Department of Registration and Education
Illinois
State Civil Service Commission
Pennsylvania Cuts Passenger Trains In East To Save Resources
The Pennsylvania Railroad will reduce its passenger schedules in the east on January 6 to clear tracks and conserve fuel for coal movement and government supplies. A total of 104 weekday and 51 Sunday trains will be withdrawn, with major changes including the Boston St Louis Pittsburgh Express and the Buckeye Limited. The Congressional Limited will be replaced on the Washington route, with southbound service terminated.
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Philadelphia
The
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Erie
Buffalo
New York
Cleveland
Washington
Cold weather and coal shortage paralyze Madrid streets
Cold weather grips Spain with Madrid buried in snow and a temperature near twelve degrees below zero. Gasoline runs out and traffic halts as coal shortages cripple heating in homes and official buildings. Dozens die in the cold, including a mail service worker found frozen in a mail car along the Northern railway. In Portal, northern regions plunge to 20 below zero.
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Madrid
Spain
Parliament
Northern Portal
Predicts Shortage in U S Egg Supply
New York January 4 An egg famine threatens the United States. W F Priebe head of the poultry and egg division of the federal food administration says from Sept 1 to Jan 1 eighty five percent of cold storage eggs were used and the remaining stock will soon be gone. He adds there is no relief in sight and urban residents should mirror country practice by serving eggs only once a week.
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New York
United States
W. F. Priebe
Poultry and Egg Division
Federal Food Administration
Mr. Priebe
Petrograd Tutors Protest Strike Across City
Petrograd teachers in primary and secondary schools strike over failure to call the constituent assembly. Moscow teachers join. Only 31 of 40,600 universities stay unaffected. Former army officers form a union for baggage handling and street cleaning, while unemployed lawyers’ clerks and former officials organize as laborers.
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Petrograd
Moscow
Irish political teacher P J Sheridan dies at 77
P J Sheridan died at his ranch home near Monte Vista Colorado on Monday at age 77. He was known as an Irish political teacher who played a prominent role in the 1890 treason trial of Charles Stewart Parnell in England and once served as an editorial writer for the New York Herald.
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P. J. Sheridan
Monte Vista
Colo
Charles Stewart Parnell
England
New York Herald
Here
Rumanians Ignore Trotzky Protest At Petrograd
Petrograd dispatch reports Trotzky protests Romanian actions against Bolshevik agents in Romania. He demands punishment for alleged outrages and warns that workers and soldiers deputies will use harsh methods against conspirators tied to Romanian authorities and Russian generals. Romanian legation replies it lacks details of Loevo events and cites Russian troop pillaging and village burnings endangering Romanians.
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Petrograd
Leon Trotzky
Bolsheviki
Bolsheviks
Trotzky
Kaledines
St. Cherbatcheff
Rumania
Rada
Loevo
Bessarabia
Extermination Report Deepens Siberian Civil War Toll
A Harbin dispatch says British and French residents of Irkutsk were exterminated in recent Bolshevik fighting. Irkutsk endured two days of heavy bombardment with much property destroyed. embassy doubts the term. It notes few French and British residents remain and Americans, if present, are uncertain.
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Petrograd
Harbin
Manchuria
Irkutsk
Siberia
Ambassador Cecil Spring-Rice Says Farewell to Wilson
British ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice met President Wilson on January 4 to bid farewell before departing on leave. He is not expected to return to the United States in his present role.
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Washington
Cecil Spring-Rice
Wilson
United States
Kaiser’s Picture Leads 10 Murder in El Paso
El Paso Texas January 4 Cries Qualey mining man focused on Mexican property was shot and killed on Pioneer plaza after a dispute over a Kaisers picture at a hotel. William Russell a Lubbock cable man is under arrest charged with the killing. Russell is wealthy and vice president of a bank at Lubbock and came to buy cattle.
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EL Paso
Texas
Cr Ries Qualey
Pioneer Plaza
William Russell
Lubbock
Kaisers
Qualey
Quatey
Southwest
Mexico
New York
Joseph Qualey
Russell
Lubbock, Or
Assigns Generals to New Commands in Washington
Secretary Baker announces new assignments for three generals who returned from France. Major General William L. Sibert takes command of the southeastern department, relieving General William P. Duvall. Major General William A. Mann goes to the eastern department, relieving Major General Eli D. Hoyle. Major General Richard M. Blatchford will command a training camp.
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Washington
Baker
France
William L. Sibert
Southeastern Department
William P. Duvall
William A. Mann
Rainbow” National Guard
Eastern Department
Eli D. Hoyle
Richard M. Blatchford
Writ Issued To Bring Banker Strause To Court
A habeas corpus writ issued by Judge L N Green orders Sheriff Lucas I Butts to bring E A Strause banker before court. Strause was held by a coroner's jury for the slaying of Berne M Mead cashier of the State Trust and Savings Bank. The event occurred a week ago Sunday in Peoria Illinois.
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Peoria
L. N. Green
Sherff Lucas I. Butts
E. A. Strause
Berne
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