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Recently the Pullman company extended the felicity of its facilities to horses. In a specially constructed Pullman car, "BathHouse" John Coughlin, Chicago alderman & sportsman, last week shipped two glossy thoroughbreds from Arlington Park., Ill., to Belmont Park...
...Mayor Thompson on his side told of the plans of the Thompson family, controlling the waterways from the Great Lakes to the ocean, to the end that freight might be shipped between Chicago and Dublin for seven dollars a ton. To top off the felicities, "Bathouse John" Coughlin, dean of the Chicago Aldermen, on behalf of the members of the City Council, presented President Cosgrave with a testimonial of greeting...
...Harvard Law School Association scholarships amounting to $250 each were awarded to Paul Martinson of New York City, Harvel Shulsky of New York City; Paul John Coughlin of Spokane, Washington; Hugo Frederick Blumenberg of Wheeling, West Virginia; David Miller of Mineral Wells, Texas; William Brainerd Carmen Jr., of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota; Warren Eugene Hoagland of Kansas City, Missouri; Irving Herman Jurow of Brooklyn, New York; Kenneth David McCracken of Paxton, Illinois; and Nathan Allen Cobb, of Portland, Maine...
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...
...TIME'S information and possible future use in its very interesting and unique presentation of news, . . . you should know that Coughlin and McKenna were contemporary political bosses, keepers of large saloons of the lowest type where one quart schooners of beer or drinks of low grade whiskey were obtainable for 5?, together with a bountiful free lunch. They were equally famed characters in the Chicago of 1890-1900. To a resident of the Windy City in those days a reference to "Bath House John" without mention of "Hinky Dink" is most incomplete...