Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Ferber appears not to have included "Hinky Dink" McKenna with "Bath House" John Coughlin in the stage-setting of Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison, an omission that should not be allowed to pass without notice...
Tips to waiters not to exceed 60c per day; to bell boys and maids not over 30c. Laundry not to exceed $1.40 per week; pressing not over $1.25. If there is no bath in the room rented by the Government traveling man, he must not spend more than 50c per day for such an item. A little pamphlet is being printed to inform the unwary traveler exactly what to do. Therein he is told how late he may arrive at a place for breakfast in order to have it paid for by the Government. The new rules will go into...
...Peter Emmanuel Wright, onetime assistant secretary to the Allied Supreme War Council in his recently published book, Portraits and Criticisms. The Right Honorable Herbert John Gladstone, first Viscount Gladstone, son of the late Victorian Liberal Premier, at once denounced his father's abuser to the secretary of the Bath Club, of which both Captain and Viscount were members. Lord Gladstone wrote to the secretary: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow! A liar, a coward and a fool...
Captain Wright was quietly expelled from the Bath Club. Last week he sued for damages. After deliberating for an hour and a half, the jury awarded him ?100 ($500) "for loss of club amenities" and ?25 ($125) for injury to his reputation. Triumphant, Captain Wright at once filed suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone...
...Immediate release of the four men "under special discipline." 2) Promise of immunity from punishment for themselves. 3) Better housing quarters with running water and bath. 4) Three square meals...