Rewarded at Last Comrade's Affection Aids Younger Brothers
Capt Walter C. Bronaugh of Missouri known as the friend of the Youngers spent years aiding the Younger brothers release. He made seventeen Minnesota trips paying his own expenses and gathered signatures to petitions for pardon. The story recounts Cole Jim and Bob Younger and their Confederate pasts with updates on their bank raids and later life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter C. Bronaugh
Henry County
Missouri
Minnesota
Cole Younger
Capt. Bronaugh
Youngers
Capt
Bronaugh
Post-Dispatch
Cole
Clinton, Mo
Jim Younger
Bob Younger
Lexington
Savannah
Richmond
Russellville
Coles Younger
Bastrop
Gallatin
Notable Early Bank Robberies of the Younger Gang Timeline
The text chronicles a sequence of robberies and killings tied to the Younger brothers era from 1871 to 1902. It lists bank heists in Corydon Louisiana Columbia Kentucky and Huntington Virginia, a $10 000 haul from the Kansas City Fair Association, a Ste Genevieve Missouri bank robbery, a Rock Island Railway wreck in Iowa with a killed engineer, and train robberies across Missouri Indiana and Iowa. It notes the 1876 Northfield raid with cashier Haywood killed, subsequent captures and escapes, and the eventual trials pardons and deaths of Bob Jim and Cole Younger with burial details at the Younger homestead in Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corydon
Columbia
Kansas City Fair Association
Ste. Genevieve
Rock Island
Iowa
Wayne County
Muncie
Ind
Huntington
Northfield
Minn
Haywood
Shieldsville
James Boys
Youngers
Stillwater
Bob Younger
Cole
Jim Younger
State Board of Pardons
St. Paul
Bob
Jim
Younger
Western
Great Reporter of His Day
The Paris correspondent of the London Times, M. de Blowitz, dies. A Hebrew by birth near Pilsen, Bohemia, he was a distinguished figure in journalism and widely known for his work and appearance.
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Paris
London Times
M. de Blowitz
Bohemia
Pilsen
Chamberlains policy and the yellow peril debate
Harper's Weekly criticizes Chamberlain as guided by profit rather than imperial glory. It highlights the Rand mine interests, the Boer war’s sacrifices, Chinese labor imports, and a looming clash with British colonists over the 30 million pound contribution. It ends with a private loan notice for C. C. Lawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Rosebery
Cuba
Atlantic
Transvaal
Cape Colony
Natal
Rhodesia
Australia
Harper’s Weekly
Hobson Slams Navy and Blames Bankhead for Retirement Hold-up
Captain Richard Pearson Hobson criticizes the navy as under manned and inadequate. He blames Congressman Bankhead of Alabama for blocking his retirement and alleges false statements were spread. Hobson urges annual naval spending of 40, 50, and 60 million dollars to make the fleet a credit by 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
England
United States
Hobson
New York
Representative Bankhead
Alabama
Cavite
Hongkong
House
Navy Department
Rocky Mountain Tea Promises Quick Complexion Restora
Advertises Rocky Mountain Tea as a cure for pimples faded complexion and skin issues. Claims rapid relief for chapped skin eczema tetter and bad blood with the product sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountain Tea
W. E. Bard Drug Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Story
France
Tie
Russia
Laurence Oliphant
M. Thiers
Times
M. Blowitz
Blowitz
World of Letters
The
Mutual Life of New York
Wall Street
Morris Robinson
Modern Life
Insurance
America
Charles H. Booth
Englewood, N. J
New York Mutual
Chamberlains
Destiny
C. C. Lawson
Katie
Bell Telephone
Congressman Bankhead
Richard Pearson Hobson
Santiago
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