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  • Woman in a Gang of Safe Robbers

    Woman in a Gang of Safe Robbers

    It is believed a woman accompanied a gang of safe robbers to blow open the safe of the Gloucester Grain and Dairy Feed Company’s building.

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  • The Directors of Camden National Bank

    The Directors of Camden National Bank

    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

    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 of the officers are likely to follow.

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  • Policeman Will Contest Dismissal

    Policeman Will Contest Dismissal

    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

    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 cutt in strips. The man, said to be a male acquaintance, followed Mrs. Day off a ferryboat and attacked her near the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. A.…

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  • New Firemen Added to Camden’s Force

    New Firemen Added to Camden’s Force

    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, Second ward; Edward Finley; Third Ward; Martin Corrigan, Fourth ward: James Willis, Fiith ward; Harry Green, Sixth…

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  • First Days of Carnegie Library

    First Days of Carnegie Library

    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 Philippine Islands.”

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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

    A. McCRACKEN, President C. T. SHARPLESS, Vice-President T. S. NEKERVIS, Treasurer C. CHESTER CRAIG, Trust Officer WILLIAM C. JONES, Solicitor.

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  • Fireman in a Mix-Up

    Fireman in a Mix-Up

    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 fire house after supper, was so badly beaten at the hands of a…

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  • Two Camden Girls Missing

    Two Camden Girls Missing

    The Camden police were asked to locate Jennie Bradley and Augusta Wilhelm. The girls have been missing since Thursday are believed to have gone to New York.

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  • Savannah is Ready

    Savannah is Ready

    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 on opening days. Added grand stand…

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  • Samuel B. F. Alcott Injured

    Samuel B. F. Alcott Injured

    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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  • News of a Day in the City of Camden

    News of a Day in the City of Camden

    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, who lived with her parents at…

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  • Doings in Camden

    Doings in Camden

    ** City Hall. Cooper. Pyne Point and Forest Kill parks were thronged yesterday. ** Flashily dressed sports on prominent street corners have given rise to the rumor that there is something doing in the “pony” line.

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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 Company Advertising Calendar, 1908. 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

    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 with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.

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  • Met Death When Electric Train Hit Automobile

    Met Death When Electric Train Hit Automobile

    MAYS LANDING, N.J., May 1—Faintly calling, “Where is my husband? Is he dead? Bring him to me. Oh, my arm.”

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  • Saved From Beating By His Bartender

    Saved From Beating By His Bartender

    Flynn protested and the jagged one smashed him on the jaw and kept on hammering him until his bartender Harry Halsey interfered…

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  • DEATH WON RACE TO DYING FATHER

    DEATH WON RACE TO DYING FATHER

    Ferdinand McWilliams died yesterday afternoon, after a lingering illness.

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  • Police Pension Fund Election

    Police Pension Fund Election

    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. Tatem; treasure, E. B. MecClong: trustees,…

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  • Poths Buy Camden Brewery

    Poths Buy Camden Brewery

    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 includes, in addition to the real estate,…

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  • Held in Heavy Bail for Enticing Woman

    Held in Heavy Bail for Enticing Woman

    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 is also in Camden, she was arrested

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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 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 her condition has been grave for several days.

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  • Working Girls

    Working Girls

    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.

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  • North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked

    North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked

    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 storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night. It continued hardly fifteen minutes, but, in that time more havoc was wrought than by…

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  • CAMDEN MAN MOURNS BROTHERS ON TITANIC

    CAMDEN MAN MOURNS BROTHERS ON TITANIC

    Bound for this city from England to make their home here with their brother, Edgar and Fred Giles went down to their death on the Titanic.

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  • Fireman Overcome in Blazing Cellar

    Fireman Overcome in Blazing Cellar

    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 at the home of John Holloway, 218 Grant street last night. Logue after being pulled from out of the cellar was…

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  • DENO

    DENO

    DENO – 10th Inst, William, husband of Catharine C. Deno, aged 63.

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  • Batted for Smith

    Batted for Smith

    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

    Two men were charged with killing an 18-year-old. The victim volunteered to escort two young ladies home and was shot by the two men when he was returning. The murder was brutal and, initially, the police had no clue where to start the investigation.

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  • Edwin F. Allen Obituary

    Edwin F. Allen Obituary

    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

    Considered one cf 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 Rudolph, daughter of Chas Rudolph, of Master street, was accorded that honor.…

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  • Thousands View Chief’s Remains

    Thousands View Chief’s Remains

    Not since the memorable funeral ten years ago, has there been such a tribute paid an official of Camden. It is estimated that at least 10,000 persons were there.

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  • Allege Father and Son Whipped Laute

    Allege Father and Son Whipped Laute

    It is alleged Laute has several broken ribs, a cut head and other injuries administered by father and son because Laute is alleged to have been too familiar with O’Connell’s daughter.

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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

    The bad aim of a 25 year old woman resulted in lots of trouble and sent her husband to Cooper Hospital. The woman was arrested and spent several hours in jail before it was all explained.

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  • 3 Policemen Hurt As Car Hits Ambulance

    3 Policemen Hurt As Car Hits Ambulance

    Philadelphia Inquirer – December 14, 1915 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 old, had shot himself over the heart. All were taken to Cooper…

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  • Camden at a Glance

    Camden at a Glance

    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, who has been a member of…

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  • Police Shake-up in Camden

    Police Shake-up in Camden

    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 Second district, and Patrolman George Anderson…

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  • Central Trust Bank Directory March

    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

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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.

    ALEXANDER C. WOOD, President. EPHRAIM TOMLINSON, 2d Vice President JOSEPH LIPPINCOTT,,Treasurer and Secretary EPHRAIM TOMLINSON, Trust Officer GEORGE J. BERGEN, Solicitor

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  • Report of the Condition of the Central Trust Company

    Report of the Condition of the Central Trust Company

    H. H. Grace, M. D., President and JOHN B. CLEMENT, Treasurer, of the above-named Company, being severally duly sworn, each for himself deposes and says that the foregoing statement is true, to the best of his knowledge and belief.

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  • 3 Hurt When Fire Truck Hits Trolley

    3 Hurt When Fire Truck Hits Trolley

    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 serious condition. The motor truck had answered a false alarm and was returning to the engine house…

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  • Fireman Anderson May Not Recover

    Fireman Anderson May Not Recover

    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 43 years, of 1147 Federal street, is dangerously ill in Cooper Hospital from internal hurts and the effects of two operations.

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  • Died

    Died

    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.

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  • Dead Fireman Buried

    Dead Fireman Buried

    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 at 1147 Federal street, Camden. An…

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  • Surrogate Reeves today granted…;

    Surrogate Reeves today granted…;

    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 Arch strets, on April 16.

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  • The fire house at Fifth and Arch is draped

    The fire house at Fifth and Arch is draped

    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 vicinity of the fire house and…

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

    Murders and Forger Escape Jail After Shooting Keepers, Killing One

    Murdering one jailor and wounding another with a revolver that had been smuggled into them by outside confederates, Wilson T. Ashbridge, slayer of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar, and Francis Murphy, alias George E. Thompson, a check forger, made their escape from the county jail a few minutes before seven o’clock last night.

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  • Children Secure Father’s Release

    Children Secure Father’s Release

    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 had been arraigned on a charge of keeping a disorderly house.

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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

    Police and county detectives are looking for George E. Thompson, who escaped from the County Jail after murdering one keeper and wounding another.

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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

    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 yesterday.

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  • 14 Camden Firemen Overcome by Smoke

    14 Camden Firemen Overcome by Smoke

    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 Mickle streets, Camden, yesterday. It was not until late yesterday afternoon, after twelve hours fighting, that the…

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  • Camden Democrats File Fusion Ticket

    Camden Democrats File Fusion Ticket

    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 the Democrats. Dr. Duncan W. Blake. the candidate for Sheriff is a former Progressive, and Louis Le…

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  • Police Department Changes

    Police Department Changes

    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 Policemen Jefferson Kay and Charles…

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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

    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 riveting a keg. The man’s sight…

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  • Bankers Daughter to Sell Thrift Stamps

    Bankers Daughter to Sell Thrift Stamps

    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 Farr, daughter of Mr. Edward L. Farr,…

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  • Here and There in Camden

    Here and There in Camden

    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.

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  • 3,000 At Camden

    3,000 At Camden

    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.

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  • War Work Director Named

    War Work Director Named

    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 the directors. The work in Camden…

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  • 3 Injured, 3 Stunned in Auto Collision

    3 Injured, 3 Stunned in Auto Collision

    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.

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  • CAMDEN HAILS HER SONS, CONQUERORS, AT VICTORY JUBILEE

    CAMDEN HAILS HER SONS, CONQUERORS, AT VICTORY JUBILEE

    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 by a jubilee in Camden yesterday which eclipsed anything that the city across the Delaware has ever attempted in her history.

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  • East Camden Bank

    East Camden Bank

    Prominent East Camden citizens are forming the East End Trust Company and at a meeting of the organization committee yesterday…;

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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

    The Authorities of Burlington county have another baffling murder mystery to solve.

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  • New Firemen Assigned for Two Platoons

    New Firemen Assigned for Two Platoons

    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 a.m. That will be the procedure in the department henceforth, the schedule being so arranged that every…

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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

    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: Alban Eavenson, of Eavenson & Levering; Belford G. Royal, of the Victor Talking Machine Company; Corgressman Francis F. Patterson.…

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  • Sage C. Russell Wed to Alice Tydeman

    Sage C. Russell Wed to Alice Tydeman

    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

    The police ambulance removed residents of South Camden to the hospitals late on Saturday afternoon.

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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

    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 the transfusion of blood from the…

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  • Walt Whitman’s Home in Camden

    Walt Whitman’s Home in Camden

    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 be preserved intact on the site where it stands. There had been a suggestion that it be…

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  • Camden Soap Plant Is Swept by Flames

    Camden Soap Plant Is Swept by Flames

    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 & Son, at Penn Street, and the Delaware River, Camden, early last night.

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  • Changes Ordered In Camden Police

    Changes Ordered In Camden Police

    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 Camden Police Department.

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  • Negro Voodoo Dug In Toils of Police

    Negro Voodoo Dug In Toils of Police

    Human bones and other gruesome articles were found in caves and passages under the home of H. H. Hyghcock,.

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  • ‘Voodoo’ Is Held For Murder

    ‘Voodoo’ Is Held For Murder

    Discovery of the body of a white baby several weeks old, human bones and other gruesome articles in a maze of dungeon-like caves and sub-cellars under 413 and 415 Liberty Street today have led the police to hold without bail “Doctor” H.H. Hyghcock.

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  • Mystic’s ‘Library’ is Full of Weird Jargon

    Mystic’s ‘Library’ is Full of Weird Jargon

    A weird ‘library’ of “voodoo literature” was discovered by the police in the strangely under-tunneled and unusually equipped home of Dr. Hyghcock.

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  • Voodoo’s Raven Room Shocks Society Editor

    Voodoo’s Raven Room Shocks Society Editor

    Touching in the highlights of my tour of the “Voodoo” house the thing that impressed me most, was the black bird, which pounced on my head and fanned my face with its wings just as I entered the tunnel.

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  • Voodoo Man Confesses Bigamy

    Voodoo Man Confesses Bigamy

    Police investigating the “voodoo den” of H.H. Hyghcock, 413-15 Liberty Street, whose arrest on suspicion of murder made several important discoveries today.

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  • ‘Girl Farm’ At Voodoo Cavern

    ‘Girl Farm’ At Voodoo Cavern

    Investigations of H.H. Hyghcock, negro voodoo man, today brought out still more startling phases of the weird career of the dusky “seer” on Liberty Street.

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  • Voodoo Doctor’s List Of Murders

    Voodoo Doctor’s List Of Murders

    Mysterious memoranda, which name persons listed "to go" and others "to be ruined," have been uncovered by police.

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  • Camden Voodo Man Once Kept Den in Norfolk, VA

    Camden Voodo Man Once Kept Den in Norfolk, VA

    Armed with picks, axes, and shovels a detail of police and firemen started this afternoon to tear up the underground voodoo den of E.H.H. Hyghcock, 413-15 Liberty Street.

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  • Sorcerer Held on New Charge

    Sorcerer Held on New Charge

    “Voodoo doctor” Hyghcock was held by the police for more than a week was dropped today and he was held in $2500 bail on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses and illegally practicing medicine.

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  • Leon E. Todd – Realtor

    Leon E. Todd – Realtor

    Camden’s largest Real Estate Brokerage organization is fully equipped to meet the increased demands for SERVICE that come with the opening of the Camden Bridge—the crowning achievement of that great engineer—Ralph Modjeski.

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  • Spearing Challenges Local Lightweights

    Spearing Challenges Local Lightweights

    Joe Spearing, star Camden lightweight who has been showing in Philadelphia a great deal lately, is anxious to fight in Camden again, and desires shots at Roxie Allen or any other leading 135-pounder hereabouts.

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  • Boxer, Sayrs’ Aide Nabbed in Tipsy Row

    Boxer, Sayrs’ Aide Nabbed in Tipsy Row

    "There is no doubt but that you were all drunk" was Bertman’s comment. “Surely, if you had been sober, this would never have happened.”

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  • Roxie Allen Starts New Year in Impressive Style by Shading Al Del Galdo in Convention Hall Finale

    The year of 1928 evidently is going to be kinder to Roxie Allen, one of the best local lightweights, than the last one and 1927 can not be said to have frowned upon the pugilistic careers of the downtown Italian, despite the fact that he lost his first scrap that year

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  • Kausel is Given $4000 Job Over Hot Protest by ‘Rebel’ in G.O.P.

    Kausel is Given $4000 Job Over Hot Protest by ‘Rebel’ in G.O.P.

    Van Meter quotes Baird as follows: “I’ll admit that Kausel is not the man for the job. But you have to help me out because we promised to take care of Kausel…”

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  • Not 1928’s First Born After All

    Not 1928’s First Born After All

    A contest which nearly every employee of the city health department is earnestly watching has been started in the bureau of vital statistics in city hall.

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  • Jewelry Clerk Held in Robbery of Store

    Jewelry Clerk Held in Robbery of Store

    Climbing to the roof of a shed in the rear of the Greenetz & Pellicoff jewelry store, 833 Broadway, burglars entered the shop early today and carried away $2,000 in loot.

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