A Friday Sampler from the Civil Service Commissioner, the Governor, and the President. Report of Commissioner Roosevelt Concerning Political Assessments & the Use of Official Influence to Control Elections, in the Federal Offices at Baltimore, Maryland with the Action of the Commission Thereon – May 1, 1891 – Washington, DC; The American Boy – St. Nicholas Magazine – May 1, 1900; Remarks to the Railroad Branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association – May 1, 1903 – Topeka, KS; Remarks to the National League of Women Workers – White House – Washington, DC – May 1, 1908; with a Salute to Admiral George Dewey – the Hero of the Battle of Manila Bay – May 1, 1898. Happy birthday to journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd (b. 1847), Calamity Jane frontier pioneer woman (b. 1852), and General Mark W. Clark (b. 1896), and remembering Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish-English missionary and explorer who died this day in 1873.