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Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations Abandoned children, 31, 59, 60–61 Adams, Ira, 22 Adams, Theodore F., Jr., 64 Addams, Jane, 4, 20–21, 32, 45, 47–48 Adolescence: defined, 2 African Americans: and gangs, 125–26; and Great Depression, 78, 88–89, 90; as boys in St. Louis streets, 3, 5; as newsboys, 71; in St. Louis neighborhoods, 11, 13–14, 123. See also Annie Malone’s Children’s Home; Father Dunne’s Colored Orphans’ Home; Racial segregation; Slavery Aids, Emmett, 64 Aiello, Frank, 100 Aiello, Robert, 100 Aiken, Charles, 58, 129 Alcoholism, 16, 21, 34, 82 Alger, Horatio, 3, 37, 45, 69, 79–80 Ali, Muhammed, 118 Allen, Macer F., 129–30 Allies’ Lunchroom, 95–96 Alston Gang, 125 Alton Railroad, 105 Amend, James, 73 Amend, Mary, 73 Amend, William “Chronicle Red,” 72–73, 80, 129 American Youth Commission, 113 Anheuser-Busch Brewery, 48 Annie Malone’s Children’s Home, 29 Anti-Begging Committee, 106 Appo, George, 37–38 Apprenticeship. See Indenture system Arkansas, 43, 73 Arson, 27, 58–59 Artful Dodger, 36–37 Ashland School, 34 Ashley Street Gang, 48 Babler State Park, 113 Bains, Annie, 60 Bains, Julia, 60 Baltimore, Maryland, 40, 55 Bannon, Francis, 78n36 Barracudas gang, 125 Barth, Lester, 102 Barth, Percy, 109–10 Baseball, 86–87 Baskin, Helen, 117 Beaumont, Gustave de, 56 Beelman, Aloys, 100 Begging, 16, 106, 109 Bellefontaine Cemetery, 73 Bellefontaine Farms, 66 Benevolent Association of the Christian Church, 29 Bennett, Michael, 117 Berra, Yogi, 69, 80, 86–87, 92, 128 Berry, Chuck, 89, 92, 128 Berry, Henry, 89 Berry, Martha, 89 Biddle Street Market, 14 Bieber, Fred, 101 Big Boy’s gang, 126 Big Brothers, 87–88 Billy the Kid, 40 Black Cats gang, 126 Blasé, Arthur F. C., 111 Blow, Susan E., 57 Blue Dragons gang, 126 Board of Children’s Guardians, 33, 35, 66 Boland, Fanny, 60 Bollman, Herman, 30 Index 169 170 Index Boonville, Missouri. See Missouri Training School for Boys Bootlegging, 87, 94–95, 102–3 Bosing, Carl, 77 Bosing, Frieda, 77 Bosing, Henry, 77 Bosing, John, 77 Bosing, Joseph, 77 Bosing, Lawrence, 77 Bosing, Robert, 77 Boston, Massachusetts, 39, 46, 55–57, 62 Bowman, Laura, 77 Boxing, 113–14, 117–18 Boyhood, defined, 2 Brace, Charles Loring, 23, 32 Brem, Roy, 78n36 Brestol (Bressler), Annie, 34 Brestol (Bressler), Frank, 34 Brestol, Robert, 33, 34–35, 128 Breweries, 48–50 Brown v. Board of Education, 124 Buel, James W., 16, 38, 53, 57, 62–63 Bums, 82. See also Hoboes; Tramps Bureau for Men, 81, 88–89, 104, 106, 114 Bureau of Child Welfare (Missouri), 33 Burroughs, William S., 91–92 Busch, Augustus, 78 Byington, Catherine, 77 Byington, Howard, 77 Byington, Maurice, 77 Camp Jackson, 17 Camp Sherwood Forest, 115–16 Campbell, Hugh, 78 Capone, Al, 100 Capraro, Emanuel, 100, 130 Carr Square housing development, 119, 123 Carroll, Edward, 59 Carstens, C. C., 105 Cavasino, Joseph, 96 Caves, 6–7, 16, 48–54 Central Bureau for Transient and Homeless Men. See Bureau for Men Centre Market, 52 Chambers, Geraldine, 118 Chappellor, Bascombe, 45 Chicago, 20–21, 23, 31, 48, 74, 77, 81, 87, 100 Child labor, 17, 34, 36–37, 61, 68. See also Indenture system; Newsboys Child savers, 56–57, 67–68, 73, 78, 80 Child Welfare League of America, 105 Children’s Aid Society, 88 Children’s Bureau of the Federal Security Agency, 119 Children’s Code Commission (Missouri), 34 Children’s Home Society, 29–31 Chillicothe, Missouri, 66 Chinese immigrants, 12–13 Cholera epidemics, 5, 11, 25, 27, 28 Chouteau, Auguste, 11, 48 Chouteau’s Pond, 10–11 Chow, Jeu, 13, 130 Christ Church Cathedral, 26 Christian Orphan Home, 29 Cipolla, James, 86 Cipolla, Joseph “Green Onions,” 96 City Hall, 38, 63–64 City Hospital, 19, 60, 98, 102 City Jail, 31–32, 73 City Plan Commission, 119 Civic League, 83 Civil War, 10, 11, 17, 25, 48, 57, 58 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 8, 112–16 Clay, Henry (a.k.a. Tom Johnson), 32, 72–73, 80, 129 Clinton-Peabody housing development, 119–23 Cochran Gardens housing development, 122 Colbeck, William P. “Dinty,” 96, 98 Compton Hill gang, 125 Concordia Seminary, 58 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 124 Connell, John “Kink,” 99 Costello, Humbert, 101 Coughlin, Eugene, 85–86 Counts gang, 125 Crime: and Great Depression, 109–12; in Hop Alley, 12–13; juvenile crime, 6–9, 16, 22, 37–38, 40–45, 47–48, 51–53, 60–62; organized crime, 93–95. See also Bootlegging; Gangs; Juvenile delinquency...

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