Oldest 100 News Articles


The oldest News Articles which have been transcribed and posted

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  • Shipbuilders Home Building and Loan Association

    Shipbuilders Home Building and Loan Association

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 31, 1904 A number of the officials and employes [sic] of the New York Shipbuiling [sic] Company have organized the Shipbuilders’ Home Building and Loan Association by the election of the following officers: President, William J. Bradley; vice president, Thomas J. Moore; secretary, John M. Kelly [sic]; treasurer, Central Trust Company;…

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  • New Camden Brewery

    New Camden Brewery

    Philadelphia Inquirer – March 27, 1904 Joseph Baumgartner, of Sioux City, Ia., to Build $200,000 Plant Joseph Baumgartner, of Sioux City, Ia., has purchased two acres of land at Bulson street and Chelten avenue, Camden, N. J., from the Camden Manufacturers’ Land Company for $20,000, upon which he intends to build a modern brewing plant.…

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  • The Casson Brothers

    The Casson Brothers

    Camden Morning Courier – July 8, 1904 The Casson Brothers, a clever acrobatic team, have secured an engagement at Guvernator’s pavillion theatre, Atlantic City, the last week in July. The team is made of Vincent Tydeman and William Dool, two local boys, Casson Brothers is their stage name [I assume this later became Tydeman and…

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  • East Side Notes

    East Side Notes

    Camden Post-Telegram – September 12, 1904 Firemen “Bobby” Gick, Scott, Franklin, Israel Adams, and William Randall and Adam Hinkle, who went on a fishing trip down the bay to Ship John Light, on board the sloop yacht, William B. Hill, have returned with a good coat of tan and plenty of the denizens of the…

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  • Eighteen New Firemen Named

    Eighteen New Firemen Named

    Camden Post-Telegram – December 3, 1904 City Council’s Fire Committee last night named 18 new firemen, Sixteen of these men Will not go on duty until July 1 next, at which time the new fire house will be ready for service, while the other two, who were named to fill vacancies, will begin duty the…

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  • Sixteen Appointed to Fire Department

    Sixteen Appointed to Fire Department

    Camden Evening Courier – December 3, 1904 On account of the illness of its chairman, Dr. Frank Neall Robinson, the fire committee of City Council last night met at Dr. Robinson’s residence, 518 Linden street. The principal object of the meeting was to recommend names for additional appointments in the Fire Department. Among the sixteen…

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  • More Firemen For Camden

    More Firemen For Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – December 4 – 1904 The Fire Committee of Camden City Council have appointed the following firemen: Charles Cook. James, White, Harry Anderson, Samuel Sheer, Edward Finley, Martin Carrigan, Joseph Daly, Joseph Ernest, Neth Morrell, Willian Buzine, Charles Sturgis, Samuel T. Whitezell, Ephraim T. Davis, J. Oscar Till, J. H. Vickers, Frederick Morse.…

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  • Woman in a Gang of Safe Robbers

    Woman in a Gang of Safe Robbers

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 7, 1905 It Is Believed That a Female Accompanied Thieves Who Wrecked a Big Safe in a Grain Elevator on the Outskirts of Gloucester GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J., Jan 6—It is believed a woman accompanied a gang of safe robbers to this section early this morning when they blew open the safe…

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  • The Directors of Camden National Bank

    The Directors of Camden National Bank

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 21, 1905 The directors of the Camden National Bank will hold a meeting next Wednesday, when arrangements will be made for the erection of the new building at Broadway and Sycamore street.

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  • Dutch Supper

    Dutch Supper

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 15, 1905 Joseph Pfeiffer gave a Dutch supper to the members of the Sixth ward Republican Club.

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  • More Policemen to go In Camden

    More Policemen to go In Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 19, 1905 Democratic Members of the Force Are Marked for Dismissal From the Department According to a statement made by a member of the Police Committee of Camden City Council to an Inquirer reporter yesterday, charges will be preferred against a number of Democratic policemen during the week and the resignations…

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  • Policeman Will Contest Dismissal

    Policeman Will Contest Dismissal

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 22, 1905 Samuel Alcott, Discharged by Councils, Will Take Case to Supreme Court Policeman Samuel B. F. Alcott was tried last night by the Police Committee of the Camden City Council and dismissed from the service of the city, having been charged with assault and battery upon William Morris, a fireman..…

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  • News and Incidents of a Day in Camden

    News and Incidents of a Day in Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle streets, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets, had her clothing cut in strips. The man, said to be a male acquaintance, followed Mrs. Day off a ferryboat and attacked her near the P. R.…

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  • New Firemen Added to Camden’s Force

    New Firemen Added to Camden’s Force

    Philadelphia Inquirer – April 22, 1905 Spreading of the City’s Department Necessitates the Appointment of More Firemen Camden City Council’s Fire Committee last night appointed additional firemen, the increased force being necessary by reason of the spreading of the department. The following are the new firemen: Charles Cook, First ward; James White and Harry Anderson,…

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  • First Days of Carnegie Library

    First Days of Carnegie Library

    Camden Courier-Post – July 9, 1905 During the first eight days of business at the Camden Free Public Library, at Broadway and Line street, Camden, 1562 readers had been registered. William J. Browning, chief clerk of the House of Representatives, has presented the library with a rare and finely illustrated set of “Census of the…

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  • To Build Camden’s New Bank

    To Build Camden’s New Bank

    The contract for the erection of the new banking building of the Camden National Bank, at Broadway and Sycamore street, Camden, has been awarded to J. E. and A. L. Pennock. The building is to be of terra cotta and brick, and the interior is to be finished in white marble. It is to be…

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  • Fined for Spanking Neighbor’s Child

    Fined for Spanking Neighbor’s Child

    The Morning Post – December 5, 1905 On a charge of having taken 8-year-old Arnold Parker in her house and “slapping” him with a broomstick, Helen Connord, of 2008 Fillmore street, was ordered to pay $3.30 for disorderly conduct, last night. Justice Rouh heard the case. Emma Parker, of 2021 Fillmore street, mother of Arnold,…

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  • 1906 Central Trust Officers and Directors

    From a 1906 City Directory advertisement A. McCRACKEN, President C. T. SHARPLESS, Vice-President T. S. NEKERVIS, Treasurer C. CHESTER CRAIG, Trust Officer WILLIAM C. JONES, Solicitor. Directors A. McCRACKEN T. S. NEKERVIS CASPER T. SHARPLESS CHARLES HELM CHARLES BOSCH FITHIAN S. SIMMONS A. J. FULLMER GEORGE A. MUNGER MAHLON F. IVINS JESSE W. STARR III…

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  • Fireman in a Mix-Up

    Fireman in a Mix-Up

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 18, 1906 Charles Worthington Accuses Edgar Bolton of Assault Fireman Edgar Bolton, former foreman Engine Company No. 5, of Camden, was arrested by Captain of Police Albert yesterday, on a charge of atrocious assault and battery preferred by Charles Worthington, a member of the same company. Worthington, while returning to the…

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  • Two Camden Girls Missing

    Two Camden Girls Missing

    Philadelphia Inquirer – March 24, 1906 The Camden police were yesterday asked to locate Jennie Bradley, 16 years told, of 1051 Pine street, and Augusta Wilhelm, 17 years old, of 629 Central avenue. The girls have been missing since Thursday morning and they are believed to have gone to New York.

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  • Savannah is Ready

    Savannah is Ready

    Atlanta Constitution – April 15, 1906 Savannah, Ga. April 14—(Special.)—Jacksonville will meet Savannah on the local diamond on Monday in the opening game of the season in the south Atlantic League, and it is expected that the crowd in attendance will be fully as large as the tremendous gatherings that have heretofore thronged the grounds…

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  • Samuel B. F. Alcott Injured

    Samuel B. F. Alcott Injured

    Philadelphia Inquirer – April 28, 1906 Former Policeman Samuel B. F. Alcott fell at the Taylor grain elevator yesterday, tearing his left leg. He was treated at the Cooper Hospital.

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  • Camden Notes

    Camden Notes

    Philadelphia Inquirer – May 1, 1906 ** Hugh Kelly, James Harris and Wiliam Conway were held in $800 bail each by Recorder Stackhouse yesterday charged with beating Special Officer Samuel B. F. Alcott. ** Tax Receiver John S. Roberts, who was stricken Friday at his desk, was reported last night to be greatly improved. **…

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  • News of a Day in the City of Camden

    News of a Day in the City of Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – May 23, 1906 Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton. Up until the past few days Miss Turner,…

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  • Doings in Camden

    Doings in Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – August 13, 1906 ** The flag poles on all the fire houses need painting. ** City Hall. Cooper. Pyne Point and Forest Kill parks were thronged yesterday. ** Open-air services were held by several of the churches yesterday. ** A white cab drawn by two white horses wearing white harness and driven…

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  • Police Have Started Census

    Police Have Started Census

    Camden Post-Telegram – November 3, 1906 The East Side police started yesterday to take the census of the Eleventh and Twelfth wards. As this requires a great amount of work, the residents of the East Side are requested to give the officers the prompt and correct answers and thus aid them in their work. Policemen…

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  • Turtle Wins Fatal Fight

    Turtle Wins Fatal Fight

    The Morning Post, Camden, New Jersey – 1907-08-02 Peter Gondolff Witnesses Encounter in Which “Copper Head” Snake is Killed Presents the Victor To Charlie Rouh Eating lunch in a skirt of woods along the White Horse pike, yesterday, “Pete” Gondolff, a lineman, who lives in the Eight ward, had his attention drawn to a commotion…

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  • The Central Trust Co Advertising Calendar, 1908

    The Central Trust Co Advertising Calendar, 1908

    The Central Trust Co. Camden, New Jersey

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  • Camden, Now Eighty Years Old, Is Proud of Its Wonderful Growth

    Camden, Now Eighty Years Old, Is Proud of Its Wonderful Growth

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 2, 1908 City on Saint Valentine’s Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning “Slow Town” Across the River Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling…

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  • Met Death When Electric Train Hit Automobile

    Met Death When Electric Train Hit Automobile

    Philadelphia Inquirer – May 2, 1908 Samuel Bailey, Well Known Camden Business Man, Killed Wife in Sanatorium, She is Likely To Die Chauffeur Badly Injured, But He Will Recover—Collision Occured [sic] at Grade Crossing Special to The Inquirer MAYS LANDING, N.J., May 1—Faintly calling, “Where is my husband? Is he dead? Bring him to me.…

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  • Saved From Beating By His Bartender

    Saved From Beating By His Bartender

    Camden Post-Telegram – August 27, 1908 Saloonkeeper William Flynn, of 245 Chestnut street, was standing in front of his establishment last night talking to his mother’s first cousin whom he hadn’t seen for years, when along staggered a man with a jag on and falling against his relative keeled her over on the sidewalk. Flynn…

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  • DEATH WON RACE TO DYING FATHER

    DEATH WON RACE TO DYING FATHER

    Camden Post-Telegram – September 2, 1908 Funeral of Former Councilman Ferdinand McWilliams Awaits Son’s Arrival. Former Councilman Ferdinand McWilliams died at his home on Mercer Street, Gloucester City, yesterday afternoon, after a lingering illness. The deceased was one of the oldest residents of Gloucester and during the war of the Rebellion served as a sergeant…

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  • Police Pension Fund Election

    Police Pension Fund Election

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 14, 1910 There was a spirited contest at the annual election of officers of the Camden Police Pension Fund yesterday. J. Oscar Weaver won out for the presidency of the fund over George Anderson. The other officers elected follow: Vice presidents James Clay; recording secretary, Edward Hyde; financial secretary, James E.…

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  • Poths Buy Camden Brewery

    Poths Buy Camden Brewery

    Trenton Evening Times – March 7, 1910 CAMDEN, March 7. – J. C. B. Morley has sold the plant of the Camden City Brewery, occupying a square of ground at Sixth and Fillmore Streets, Camden, to the F. A. Poth & Sons Brewing Co., Inc., of Philadelphia, for a consideration of about $500,000. The sale…

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  • Held in Heavy Bail for Enticing Woman

    Held in Heavy Bail for Enticing Woman

    The Morning Post – May 18, 1910 Through detective work by her 14-year-old sister, Alberta Connord, 16-years-old, who disappeared from her home here last Friday, was found last night in Philadelphia. She was traced to a house at Seventh and Spring Garden streets, where, with Arthur Williams, a married man, 33 years old, whose home…

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  • Mrs. Abbott Dies in Her Husband’s Arms

    Mrs. Abbott Dies in Her Husband’s Arms

    Camden Post-Telegram – December 12, 1910 Wife of East Side Policeman Long Suffered With Tuberculosis; Was a Daughter of Ludwig Schuck Mrs. Margaret Abbott, wife of Policeman Robert T. Abbott, died this morning at 6 o’clock after several years illness with consumption, at her home, No. 49 North Twenty-sixth street. Death came rather unexpectedly, although…

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  • Working Girls

    Working Girls

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 23, 1912 Under the direction of the Board of Playground Commissioners, the first of a series of entertainments for working girls will be given tonight at the Carnegie Library, Broadway and Line Streets.

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  • Camden Cyclone of April 2, 1912

    Camden Cyclone of April 2, 1912

    The city of Camden was hit by tornadoes, or as they were then called, cyclones, on two occasions, August 3, 1885 and April 2, 1912. The first storm destroyed the Tabernacle Baptist Church at North 3rd and Pearl Street, and caused damage to buildings at North 3rd and Main Streets and elsewhere. The second storm…

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  • North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked

    North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked

    Philadelphia Inquirer – April 3, 1912 Hundreds of Houses Ruined by Violent Wind and Rain and two Persons May Die; Streets Strewn with Debris Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a…

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  • CAMDEN MAN MOURNS BROTHERS ON TITANIC

    CAMDEN MAN MOURNS BROTHERS ON TITANIC

    Camden Post-Telegram – April 20, 1912 Edgar and Fred. Giles Were Bound for This City From England to Make Home With Their Brother William, Who Hourly Expects Word That His Aged Father is Dead Bound for this city from England to make their home here with their brother, Edgar and Fred Giles went down to…

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  • Fireman Overcome in Blazing Cellar

    Fireman Overcome in Blazing Cellar

    Camden Daily Courier – February 7, 1912 Rendered Unconscious By Smoke Joseph Logue is Bravely Rescued Policeman and Laddie As Heroes Bravery on the part of Policeman Harry Bakleyy and Fireman Harry Anderson perhaps saved the life of Fireman Joseph Logue, of the No 4 house when he was overcome with smoke in the cellar…

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  • DENO

    DENO

    Philadelphia Inquirer – August 14, 1912 DENO – 10th Inst, William, husband of Catharine C. Deno, aged 63. Relatives and friends, also Jackson Circle. No 4, B of A, Camden City Fire Dept Firement’s Relief Association and Sixth Ward Republican Club, invited to funeral, Thurs 2 P.M. residence, 1043 S. 3th [sic] Camden, NJ. Remains…

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  • Batted for Smith

    Batted for Smith

    Fort Wayne Sentinel – September 4, 1912 Umpire Geisel batted for Ed Smith in the ninth inning of the last game at Zanesville and Jack Gilbert struck him out. Tydeman hit the bull sign in the final game and earned $50.

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  • Boy’s Brutal Murderer Collapses At Hearing

    Boy’s Brutal Murderer Collapses At Hearing

    Camden Courier-Post — October 14, 1912 Coursey Breaks Down While Story of Cold-Blooded Killing of Karl Kellmann is Told by Detective; Two ‘Pals,’ Too, Accused of Crime Collapsing when arraigned in Police Court this morning before Recorder Stackhouse on the charge of killing Karl Kellman, aged 18 years, of 2919 High Street, at Twenty-seventh and…

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  • Edwin F. Allen Obituary

    Edwin F. Allen Obituary

    Philadelphia Inquirer – June 19, 1913 ALLEN.– 16th inst. AMANDA, wife of Edwin F Allen and daughter of the late Captain Thomas M. and Mary A. Tetter Relatives and friends invited to funeral. Thurs 2 PM, residence. 726 Elm st, Camden, Internment private at Evergreen.

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  • Vince Tydeman’s Enviable Record

    Vince Tydeman’s Enviable Record

    Camden Courier-Post – September 15, 1913 Camden Boy makes the “Big Smoke” By Terrific Swatting and Running Goes with Toledo Next Year Vincent Tydeman, one of the most consistent all-round base ball players tthis [sic] city ever turned out, is home again after gleaning to his honor a record enviable. Vince was a member of…

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  • Police Carnival was a Gigantic Success

    Police Carnival was a Gigantic Success

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 16, 1914 POLICE CARNIVAL WAS A GIGANTIC SUCCESS Considered one of the most successful events ever given in Camden, the second annual industrial show and carnival of the Camden Police Beneficial Association came to a close in the Third Regiment Armory Saturday night with the crowning of the queen. Miss Margaret…

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  • Thousands View Chief’s Remains

    Thousands View Chief’s Remains

    Camden Post-Telegram – May 10, 1914 Throngs Jam Court House While Body Lies in State for Two Hours. LAST SAD RITES THIS AFTERNOON Not since the memorable funeral of Chief of Police Foster ten years ago, has there been such a genuine public tribute paid an official of Camden as was in evidence last night…

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  • Allege Father and Son Whipped Laute

    Allege Father and Son Whipped Laute

    Philadelphia Inquirer – September 29, 1914 Accused of being the assailants of William Laute, aged 37 years, of 741 Fairview street, who was unable to appear against them, Thomas O’Connell and his son, James, of 2309 South Seventh street, were yesterday held by Recorder Stackhouse in Camden pending a further hearing. It is alleged Laute…

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  • Central Trust Company Advertisement, 1915

    Central Trust Company Advertisement, 1915

    Central Trust Co. Centrally Located Capital and Surplus, Undivided Profits, nearly $400,000 Resources $2,250,000 Federal & Fourth Streets Camden, N. J.

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  • Woman Hits Husband Hurling Stone at Dog

    Woman Hits Husband Hurling Stone at Dog

    Philadelphia Inquirer – September 15, 1915 Man Sent to Hospital, Wife to Jail, When Aim of Latter at Howling Animal Fails The bad aim of Mrs. Ella Taylor, aged 25 years, of 3010 Pleasant street, East Camden, resulted in lots of trouble and incidentally sent her husband, William, aged 49 years, to Cooper Hospital, with…

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  • 3 Policemen Hurt As Car Hits Ambulance

    3 Policemen Hurt As Car Hits Ambulance

    Philadelphia Inquirer – December 14, 1915 Collision Occurs as Machine Speeds to Home of Man Who Attempted Suicide Three Camden policemen were injured, one of them seriously, last night, when the First district auto ambulance was struck by a trolley car while responding to a call from 2310 Carman street, where Bodine Stratton, 39 years…

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  • Camden at a Glance

    Camden at a Glance

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 29, 1916 On the force ten years, Sergeant Lewis Stehr was made a police captain yesterday by Mayor Ellis. He succeeds Arthur Stanley. who resigns because of disability after being commander of the Second District for eighteen years. Stehr‘s place will be taken by Policeman George Anderson, of the Ninth ward,…

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  • Police Shake-up in Camden

    Police Shake-up in Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 17, 1916 There was a general change in Camden’s Police Department yesterday occasioned by the retirement of Captain Arthur Stanley after nearly twenty years of service. He was succeeded as captain by Sergeant Lewis Stehr, who takes charge of the Second district. Sergeant George Nowrey was transferred from the Third the…

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  • Central Trust Bank Directory March

    March – December 1916 Central Trust Company Fourth & Federal Street, Camden, N. J. DR. H. H. GRACE, M. D., President CASPER T. SHARPLESS, Vice President JOHN B. CLEMENT, 2nd Vice President & Secretary-Treasurer MONTREVILLE SHINN, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer C. CHESTER CRAIG, Trust Officer Directors Alpheus McCracken, Chairman of Board Eli Sharpless Casper T. Sharpless A.…

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  • Report of the Condition of the Central Trust Company

    Report of the Condition of the Central Trust Company

    Of Camden, N.J. at the close of business March 7, 1916: Resources Bonds and Mortgage……………………………………… $233,615 00 Stocks and Bonds…………………………………………… 401,303 36 Time Loans on Collaterals………………………………. 7,750 00 Notes and Bills Purchased………………………………. 927,483 73 Overdrafts……………………………………………………… 7 45 Due from Banks, etc……………………………………….. 171,484 68 Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures……………. 59,339 13 Other Real Estate……………………………………………. 20,437 94…

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  • Camden National Bank – March-December 1915

    Camden National Bank – March-December 1915

    REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Camden National Bank At Camden, in the State of New Jersey, at the close of business March 7, 1916:

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  • Bank Directory, Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Co.

    March 7, 1916 Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Company Camden, N. J. Directors:

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  • 3 Hurt When Fire Truck Hits Trolley

    3 Hurt When Fire Truck Hits Trolley

    Philadelphia Inquirer – April 15, 1916 Two Camden Firemen Hurled From Machine—Motorman of Car Removed to Hospital Two firemen and a motorman were injured in a collision betwen No. 1 motor truck from fire department headquarters and a trolley car at Fourth and Arch streets, Camden, last night. None of the injured is in a…

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  • Fireman Anderson May Not Recover

    Fireman Anderson May Not Recover

    Camden Post-Telegram – May 3, 1916 Hurt in Truck-Trolley Crash He is Dangerously Ill at Cooper Hospital. HAS UNDERGONE TWO OPERATIONS Injured in a collision at Fourth and Arch strets betwen a Public Service trolley and the big auto truck of No. 1 Truck Company, on the night of April 16, Lieutenant Harry Anderson, aged…

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  • Died

    Died

    Camden Post-Telegram – May 6, 1916 ANDERSON.—Suddenly, on May 4th, 1916, Harry C., beloved husband of Margaret A. Anderson nee Cummisky, and son of Isaac and Sarah Anderson, aged 43. The relatives and friends of the family, also the Camden Fire Department and the 2nd Ward Republican Club, are invited to attend the funeral, on…

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  • Dead Fireman Buried

    Dead Fireman Buried

    Philadelphia Inquirer – May 10, 1916 With the body mounted on the auto supply wagon, the funeral of Fireman Harry C, Anderson, who died in Cooper Hospital from injuries received in being thrown from the auto truck in responding to an alarm of fire a couple of weeks ago, took place yesterday from his home…

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  • Surrogate Reeves today granted…;

    Surrogate Reeves today granted…;

    Camden Post-Telegram – May 11, 1916 Surogate Reeves to-day granted letters of administration to Mrs. Mary Anderson on the estate of Lieutenant Harry M. Anderson, her husband, the fireman who died in Cooper Hospital as the result of injuries he received in a collision between Truck No. 1 and a trolley car at Fourth and…

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  • The fire house at Fifth and Arch is draped

    The fire house at Fifth and Arch is draped

    Camden Post-Telegram – May 5, 1916 The fire house at Fifth and Arch strets is draped in mourning because of the death of Lieutenant Harry Anderson, who died last night in Cooper Hospital, from injuries sustained in an accident at Fourth and Arch streets. Anderson was very popular with the firemen and residents in the…

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  • Murders and Forger Escape Jail After Shooting Keepers, Killing One

    Murders and Forger Escape Jail After Shooting Keepers, Killing One

    Camden Post-Telegram – July 18, 1916 Wilson Ashbridge, Who Shot and Killed Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar and George E. Thompson, Check Swindler, Trap Jailor Hibbs by a Ruse and After Slaying Him Shoot Joe Ellis Who Intercepted Them in Flight. Used Revolver Smuggled Into Prison by Confederates and Leave Jail Wide Open in Their Flight, a…

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  • Children Secure Father’s Release

    Children Secure Father’s Release

    Camden Post-Telegram – July 18, 1916 Promises to Mend Erring Ways and Heartily Thanks Recorder. Charge Made by Colored Woman Taking into consideration that he had five small children and a wife dependent upon him Recorder Stackhouse this morning released Charles Becker, aged 28 years, of 2936 Howell street, in his own recognizance, after he…

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  • Revolver, Smuggling It in Covered By Fruit, Murderer’s Wife Supplied It

    Revolver, Smuggling It in Covered By Fruit, Murderer’s Wife Supplied It

    Camden Post Telegram – July 19, 1916 Confessing Supplying Pistol, in Spike of Husband’s Denial That She Was Guiltless, Mrs. Ashbridge Is Held Without Bail on Charge of Conspiracy in Aiding and Abetting Escape From Jail With Wilson T. Ashbridge under guard in a cell in what was formerly known as Murderer’s Row, the police…

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  • Ashbridge Caught in Chester Hotel Along with Wife

    Camden Post-Telegram – July 19, 1916 Fugitive Murderer Waives Extradition and Detective Schregler Brings Couple to Camden in Motor Car. Pair Registered in Early Morning Captured at noon with his wife in the Keystone Hotel at Chester PA, Wilson Ashbridge, who escaped from the County Prison last night with George E. Thompson, a forger, after…

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  • Thousands View Jailors Remains

    Camden Post-Telegram – July 20, 1916 Great Crowds Pay Tribute to Memory of Daddy Isaac Hibbs, Slain Keeper Casket Banked by Handsome Flowers Thousands of persons last night paid tribute to the memory of Daddy Isaac J. Hibbs, the jailor, who in Monday night was murdered by Wilson Ashbridge. The humble Hibbs residence at 913…

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  • Forger Thompson Still at Liberty

    Camden Post-Telegram – July 20, 1916 No Trace Yet Found of the Ashbridges Pal in Sensational and Tragic Escape From the County Prison on Monday Night FOOD SHUNNED BY YOUNG MURDERER Evidently in hiding, George E. Thompson, who escaped from prison with Wilson Ashbridge on Monday night after Murdering one jailor and wounding another, is…

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  • Hit by Thrown Brick Camden Youth May Die

    Hit by Thrown Brick Camden Youth May Die

    Philadelphia Inquirer – August 9, 1916 Innocent Victim of Street Fight Taken to Cooper Hospital in Dying Condition Struck on the head by a brick thrown in a street fight at Ann (now Maurice Street) and Sycamore streets, Camden. Meyer Pinsky, 16 years old, of 1415 Kaighn avenue, received a fracture of the skull and…

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  • Changes Among Camden Firemen

    Changes Among Camden Firemen

    Philadelphia Inquirer – December 1, 1916 There are a number of changes that become effective in Camden’s Fire Department today. Charles Fitzsimmons, Jr., will become a lieutenant to fill the vacancy occasioned by the removal of Israel Adams owing to physical infirmities. Irwin Price, of the Sixth ward, takes the place of William McCauley, dismissed,…

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  • Chared with Being the Assailant

    Chared with Being the Assailant

    Philadelphia Inquirer – April 13, 1917 Charged with being the assailant of Sergeant of Police George Anderson, who was knocked from at automobile by the chauffeur on March 2, when he attempted to make an arrest, Frank E Wade, 28 years old, of 415 North Fourth street was held in $500 bail by the Recorder…

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  • 14 Camden Firemen Overcome by Smoke

    14 Camden Firemen Overcome by Smoke

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 4, 1917 Twelve-Hour Fight Follows Discovery of Smoldering Fire in Wall Paper Plant Fourteen firemen were overcome by smoke, one of them being removed to Cooper Hospital, and about $20000 in damage was done at a fire at the plant of the Frank G. Hitchner Wall Paper Manufacturing Company, Fifth and…

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  • Camden Democrats File Fusion Ticket

    Camden Democrats File Fusion Ticket

    Philadelphia Inquirer – September 1, 1917 Former Progressive and Republican on Slate–No Nomination Made for Coroner’s Office As predicted in yesterday’s Inquirer a fusion ticket is to be supported by the Democrat machine at the coming primaries in Camden. Yesterday was the last day for filing nominating petitions and a mixed ticket is shown by…

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  • Police Department Changes

    Police Department Changes

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 1, 1918 There were a number of changes in Camden’s Police Department yesterday by Mayor Ellis. He appointed Sergeant John Golden successor to Captain Hugh Poyle[sic], recently placed on the pension list. Patrolman Howard Smith was made a city detective, and Hall Officer James Clay was made a hall sergeant. Motorcycle…

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  • WM. P. HALLINGER BOARD PRESIDENT

    Camden Post-Telegram – May 1, 1918 Much Important Business Transacted at Real Estate Men’s Annual Meeting. A-SHAPED SIGNS ARE IN DISFAVOR At the annual meeting of the Camden Real Estates Board at the Hotel Ridgway these officers re-elected: President, Wiliam P. Hallinger; vice president, Raymond L. Warren; treasurer, Joseph H. Forsythe; secretary, Robert D. Clow,…

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  • Compensation Award

    Compensation Award

    Philadelphia Inquirer – March 17, 1918 According to a ruling made by Referee Goas, of the Employers’ Compensatian Bureau in Camden, the Poth Brewing Company must pay Christran Heitman, of 1631 Fillmore street, $10 a week for forty-two weeks for injuries received when he was struck in the eye with a hoop while he was…

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  • Bankers Daughter to Sell Thrift Stamps

    Bankers Daughter to Sell Thrift Stamps

    Camden Daily Courier – May 13, 1918 The committee in charge of the sale of War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps has requested the Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Company to open a booth under the auspices of the Ladies Committee for the sale of stamps. This booth will be in charge of Miss Ruth…

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  • Here and There in Camden

    Here and There in Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – May 17, 1918 The woman who operated the booths during the Third Liberty Loan drive have formed an organization for the purpose of raising a fund with which to purchase an ambulance. The Sixth Ward Republican Club yesterday contributed $25 to the Red Cross fund. On a charge of selling sugar short…

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  • 3,000 At Camden

    3,000 At Camden

    Buffalo Express – September 29, 1918 Spanish influenza attacks workers in New Jersey shipyards Camden, N.J., Sept. 28.—More than 3,000 cases of Spanish influenza have developed here during the last 24 hours, according to reports made tonight by city physicians. Twenty deaths were reported today. State Senator J. C. Haines is seriously ill with the…

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  • War Work Director Named

    War Work Director Named

    Philadelphia Inquirer – October 27, 1918 F. Morse Archer, president of the National State Bank, is to direct the Camden drive for the war work fund. Former Judge William T. Boyle and William J. Strandwitz are the vice chairmen; Walter J. Staats is the treasurer and E. A. Stoll and David S. Rash, Jr., are…

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  • Gladney Obituary

    Philadelphia Public Ledger – October 31, 1918 GLADNEY – Oct. 30, GEORGE J. B. GLADNEY, aged 71. Relatives and friends invited to funeral services, Sat., 2 p. m., son’s residence, Charles M. Gladney, 618 Point st., Camden, N. J. Int. Harleigh Cem. Friends may call Fri. eve.

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  • 3 Injured, 3 Stunned in Auto Collision

    3 Injured, 3 Stunned in Auto Collision

    Philadelphia Inquirer – June 15, 1919 Spectator Witnessing Midnight Accident in Gloucester Faint Special to The Inquirer. Gloucester, N.J., June 14 – Three persons were injured, three women fainted, three men were badly stunned when two automobiles collided last night at Broadway and Hudson streets. Frank Hart, of 1832 Fillmore street, who was operating one…

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  • CAMDEN HAILS HER SONS, CONQUERORS, AT VICTORY JUBILEE

    CAMDEN HAILS HER SONS, CONQUERORS, AT VICTORY JUBILEE

    Camden Courier-Post – September 7, 1919 Battle Flags Wave in Triumph O’er Parade Reviewed by Admiral Gray Veterans of G. A. R. and Wounded Ride; Centopath [sic] Passes in Reverential Hush The Peace with victory which Camden’s sons along with millions of other soldiers of all the Allied countries helped to bring home was celebrated…

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  • East Camden Bank

    East Camden Bank

    Philadelphia Inquirer – March 28, 1920 Organizers Announce Sale of 600 Shares of Stock Prominent East Camden citizens are forming the East End Trust Company and at a meeting of the organization committee yesterday secretary Leon Todd presented a report showing that 600 shares of the 1000 shares of stock have been subscribed for. This…

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  • Hacked Remains of David Paul, Missing Bank Messenger, Discovered by Gunners

    Hacked Remains of David Paul, Missing Bank Messenger, Discovered by Gunners

    New Jersey Mirror (Mt Holly) – October 20, 1920 The Authorities of Burlington county have another baffling murder mystery to solve. On Saturday four duck hunters, William and James Cutts, and C. B. Inston, of Tabernacle, and George W. Duncan, of Audubon were passing through the pine forest at Irick’s Crossing, near Tabernacle, when their…

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  • New Firemen Assigned for Two Platoons

    New Firemen Assigned for Two Platoons

    Camden Post-Telegram – December 30, 1920 Double Shift System Becomes Effective at 8 O’clock on Saturday Morning Saturday morning at 8 o’clock the two-platoon system of the Fire Department becomes effective. At that hour the first shift will go on duty and remain until 6 p.m. when the second squad goes on, remaining until 8…

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  • Fireman Goes Insane

    Fireman Goes Insane

    Philadelphia Inquirer – August 30, 1916 Firemen connected with the Twenty-seventh and Federal streets engine house, Camden, were taken by some surprise when one of their number, Israel Adams announced he had been promoted a captain, and ordered them to get ready to accompany him to another house. His actions became so peculiar that a…

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  • New Chairmanship of the Camden Chamber of Commerce Committee

    New Chairmanship of the Camden Chamber of Commerce Committee

    Philadelphia Inquirer – October 7, 1921 Circuit Court Judge Frank T. Lloyd yesterday accepted chairmanship of the Camden Chamber of Commerce Committee which is to study the unemployment question and make suggestions for remedial measures. With Judge Lloyd on the committee are: The committee was named by William E. Bennett, president of the Chamber of…

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  • Sage C. Russell Wed to Alice Tydeman

    Sage C. Russell Wed to Alice Tydeman

    The Morning Post – December 1, 1921 Sage C. Russell, aged 24, who is a resident of the Northeast, and Miss Alice Lydeman [Tydeman—ed.], six years his junior, a local girl, journeyed down to Elkton, Md., on Saturday and secured a marriage license.

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  • Removed to Hospitals

    Camden Courier-Post – January 9, 1922 The police ambulance removed the following residents of South Camden to the hospitals late on Saturday afternoon: West Jersey Homeopathic– William Perry, aged 62 years, 1725 Fillmore Street; Albert Biron, 24 years old, 1108 Baring Street. Cooper Hospital– Mrs. Edna Rosenfelt, aged 23 years, 575 Washington Street; Margaret Radcliffe…

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  • Police to Probe $200,000 Kaighn Ave. Fire

    Police to Probe $200,000 Kaighn Ave. Fire

    Camden Courier-Post – January 18, 1922 Fire Captain May Die, Four Others Injured; Damage Is $200,000 Economy Store and Other Buildings Near Broadway Swept by Flames Early This Morning Falling Debris Carries Men Through Roof And Into Cellar Sleeping Inmates of Apartments Roused and Invalid Carried to Safety Mayor Sees Rescues Mayor [Charles H.] Ellis…

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  • Sergeant George Anderson Ill

    Camden Courier – January 9, 1922 The many friends of Sergeant George W. Anderson of the Third District will be sorry indeed to learn that he is again seriously ill at his South Camden home, 582 Clinton Street. Several months ago Sergeant Anderson underwent an operation in a Philadelphia hospital, his life being saved by…

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  • Walt Whitman’s Home in Camden

    Walt Whitman’s Home in Camden

    Camden Evening Courier – May 16, 1922 Editorial in The New York Herald, Monday May 15 [1922] The City Council of Camden, New Jersey, has voted that the home in which Walt Whitman passed the later years of his life and in which on March 26, 1892, he died shall not be destroyed but shall…

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  • Camden Soap Plant Is Swept by Flames

    Camden Soap Plant Is Swept by Flames

    Philadelphia Inquirer – October 21, 1922 $400,000 Loss Suffered in Two-alarm Fire Along Water Front Fireman Injured in Blaze; Under Control Half Hour After Discovery Loss estimated at $350,000 to $400,000 was caused by fire which swept the three upper floors of the six-story main building occupied by the soap manufacturing plant of J. Eavenson…

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  • Changes Ordered In Camden Police

    Changes Ordered In Camden Police

    Philadelphia Inquirer – November 26, 1922 Council Body Directs Solicitor Bleakly to Plan Re-organization of Department Following an extended conference, the police committee of Camden City Council yesterday directed Solicitor Bleakly to prepare an ordinance for a partial reorganization of the Police Department. The new ordinance will provide for the captain and three lieutenants to…

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  • Negro Voodoo Dug In Toils of Police

    Negro Voodoo Dug In Toils of Police

    Helena Independent, Helena Montana, April 10, 1925 By Associated Press. Camden, N. J., April 9—Bones believed to be those of humans and other gruesome articles in caves and passages under the home of H. H. Hyghcock, a negro voodoo doctor, and the statement of his seven-year-old daughter that he had killed a woman two weeks…

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  • ‘Voodoo’ Is Held For Murder

    ‘Voodoo’ Is Held For Murder

    Camden Courier – April 9, 1925 Daughter of ‘Mystic’ Says Old Man Killed Woman in His ‘Den’ Police Find Body of Baby in Tunnel Under Liberty Street Houses; Weird Stuffed Birds and Fantastic Symbols in “Chambers of Horrors” Under Houses in Liberty Street “Dr. Hyghcock” Is Under Arrest Discovery of the body of a white…

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  • Voodoo Man Confesses Bigamy

    Voodoo Man Confesses Bigamy

    Camden Courier – April 10, 1925 Cops Discover Secret Vault, Baby Skeleton Police investigating the “voodoo den” of H.H. Hyghcock, 413-15 Liberty Street, whose arrest on suspicion of murder made several important discoveries today. They are: When informed of the finding of the supposed vault, Director Tempest instructed Captain Gordon to “tear it out if…

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