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Rotary Club Lends to 16 College Boys
Eight Camden boys last September were able to continue their studies in college and universities because a Camden service club established a loan fund to aid worthy students.
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Fairview Club Women Observe Drama Day
Drama Day is being observed by the Fairview Women’s Club at a meeting in the Community Baptist Church this afternoon. Mrs. C. Richard Allen, chairman of the drama committee, is in charge of the program, which is following the business session. Tea is being served by a committee, consisting of Mrs. H. Furness, Mrs. G. Stanton, Mrs. Dukes, Mrs. Burnside Anderson and Mrs. Doty.
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Ghost Sniper Seen! Fires on 2 Girls, Bullet is Found
Camden"s “phantom sniper” has been seen. The man who had terrorized occupants of motorbuses, drivers of automobiles and residents of homes upon which he has fired during the last two months is no ghost, but a man of flesh and blood.
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Camden Centennial Will Start Feb. 13
Camden’s centennial will be observed during the week of February 13. That announcement was made today by Frank Albright, chairman of the committee in charge to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Camden as a city.
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Judge Shay to be Next Prosecutor
Trenton, Jan. 31- The name of Judge Samuel M. Shay, of the Camden County Court of Common Pleas, has been handed to Governor Moore as the choice of the Camden Democratic organization for prosecutor, succeeding Ethan Wescott.
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CAMDEN – A Great City Growing Greater
Just one hundred years ago today, a little group of men went before the Legislature and asked that body to incorporate as a city the straggling and struggling village of Camden. If these men could now visit the city born that day through their efforts, they might well feel that their labor of love was not in vain. For the village of 1,143 people in 1828 has become a great city of close to 200,000 today. By estimate of the United States Census Department, the population on July 1, 1927, was 133,100. This does not include the thickly populated interlocking suburbs, neither does it make allowance for the enormous influx of home-seekers who have followed Camden Bridge to the Jersey side of the Delaware since 1926.
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Roxie Allen Faces Reid In Shore Final Tonight
Roxie Allen, local lightweight idol, will climb back into the ring again tonight when he opposes Eddie Reid, New York, in the windup of eight rounds at Joe Wenke’s Northside Club, Atlantic City. Joey Reynolds, Atlantic City, will appear in the semi-windup of eight rounds against Carmel Spagnolia, Philadelphia. Tiger Theodore, Philadelphia, is booked for a clash with Billy Marino, of this city, in the main preliminary contest of six rounds. Davy Brown, another seashore performer, is due to clash with Bobby Doyle, Egg Harbor, in the second contest. Jockey Evans will encounter Johnny Burns in the opening fray. Both hail from Atlantic City.
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Allen Tops Eddie Reid
Atlantic City, Feb. 14.—Roxie Allen, Camden lightweight, defeated Eddie Reid, New York negro. in the windup battle at the Northside A. C. here last night.
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PA. Girl is Nabbed Here on Way to Get Married
Because she wanted to get married and have a home of her own, 16 year-old Ida Underwood, of Johnstown PA, ran away from home.
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Teller In Coma Held in $19,000 Theft At Bank
Burd S. Garrett, a teller, was placed under technical arrest this afternoon for a $19,000 theft at bank, while being admitted to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
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Bank Embezzler Jokes When Taken to County Prison
Laughing at photographers who tried to snap a picture as he covered his face with his hat and joking with the officers who accompanied him, Burd S. Garrett, for seven years a teller employed by the East End Trust Company was taken from the West Jersey Hospital this morning at 11:15 to the County Courthouse.
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Colanduno Guilty of Dope Peddling
Joseph Colanduno, said by police to be a member of a powerful dope ring in Camden, will be sentenced by Judge Shay tomorrow morning.
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Six-Foot Wide House Here Declared World’s Narrowest
Residents of Camden believe that all of the houses in all the cities of the earth, this city, alone, can claim the narrowest house.
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Man’s Head Cut Off By N.Y. – Camden Train
Albert Carpenter, 40, 2928 Michell street, was,killed instantly yesterday by a New York-Camden train of the Amboy division, Pennslyvania Railroad, at Thirty-second street.
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Zimmerman is Victor over Midget Ambrose
Camden Courier Post – April 20, 1928 National Park, Feb. 12. Bobby Zimmerman, of Fairview, who holds…
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Burke and Gimble Win
Camden Courier Post – April 20, 1928 Buddy Burke beat Jimmy Golden in the 10-round feature bout…
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Old Doc Hyghcock Nabbed with Ancient Sedan, Gun
Doctor Reyouque Hyghcock, known for his “House of Terror” was charged with having a loaded revolver and driving without a license.
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Business Men Form Third National Bank
Faith in the progress of East Camden is reflected in announcement of the organization of the Third National Bank and Trust company, the city’s newest banking institution, to be opened in April or May in a building at the northeast corner of Twenty-seventh Street and Westfield Avenue.
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Spearing May Give Michaels Real Tilt
Joe Spearing, of East Camden, who meets Joey Michaels, Riverside slugger in the eight-round semi-final to the Roxie Allen-Emory Cabana bout at Public Service Park on Friday night, is rapidly fighting his way into the windup class.
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Michaels Anxious to Beat Spearing
The Joe Spearing-Joey Michaels bout, which ia slated as the semi- windup to the Roxie Allen-Emory Cabana fight at the Public Service Park on Friday night, is attracting nearly as much interest as the wind-up.
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Allen Takes Thumping But Gets Even Break
A chorus of 1500 enraged voices, raised in a discordant unison, greeted the announcement of a draw decision handed down by Referee Ray Smith at the conclusion of eight rounds of legal assault between Roxie Allen and Emory Cabana at Twelfth and Federal streets last night. The occasion was the star bout of the Camden City A. C. boxing show.
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Man Who Sup’lied Racketeers’ Guns Brought to Court
Philadelphia, Sept 6 — Edward S. Goldberg, proprietor of the Military Sales company, believed to have been the man who supplied Philadelphia gangsters with machine guns and bullet proof vests today faced arraignment before Magistrate E.J. Pennock on perjury charges as a result of the latest development in the inquiry into the underworld here.
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Gorman Meets Test Against Joe Bashara
Successful so far in a comeback campaign launched recently, Joe Bashara, hard-hitting middleweight from Baltimore, will stack up against a tough customer in one of the preliminary bouts at the all-star show arranged by the Matthew Purnell Post 518, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the Camden Convention Hall next Tuesday.
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Safe Combination Blown; $350 Stolen
Theft of $350 from a safe in one of three offices on Haddon avenue, broken into by robbers last night, led police to believe that possibly the shooting of Joseph “Mose” Flannery might have been the aftermath of a “split-up” of the loot.
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Trenton ‘Phantom’ Gains Verdict Over Local Italian for Third Straight Time
Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a boxing shot at the Convention Hall, Vincent Forgione, of Philadelphia. won the referee’s decision over Babe McCorgary, of Oklahoma, in the last-half of the double-windup of the all-star benefit, show staged last night by the Coree Mathews-Purnell Post, No. 518. Veterans of Foreign Wars. More than 3500 fans poured through the portals of the Civic enter institution to witness the five eight-round scraps that comprised the night’s program of fisticuffs. While the Forgione-McCorgary fracas was anything but thrilling, the remainder of the bouts made up for the lack of thrills in the last set-to.
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Bomb Wrecks Division Street Dairy in Midnight Blast
Coccia said boys living in the neighborhood saw the man enter an automobile, with lights out, immediately after the bomb wrecks the neighborhood. The car, they said, had been parked near the Coccia home with its front and rear lights out.
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Doris Indictment Studied by Police
Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Palese yesterday began to prepare his office to take John Doris to a quick trial for the murder of Joseph “Mose” Flannery.
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Shooting May End in Murder Charge
John Doris was held on shooting Joseph O’Connor, and may be charged with murder over a woman and a $5 liquor bill.
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Gangster Shot As Racketeers Open War Here
Joseph Connors, known racketeer of Gloucester City, was shot in Camden after an altercation at a bar over $5. Ten people held for questioning.
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Brother Follows Killer’s Footsteps
Slipping down the same path of crime that led his brother to the electric chair, John Doris, twenty-four, today was held for shooting an underworld character.
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Death Cheats Wife of Mate’s Surprise
Fate and the heavy wheels of a bus turned to tragedy a surprise planned by Arthur Hickman, 45, of 2021 Howell Street, for the wife he had not seen for five weeks.
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Civatti Outslugs Rugged O’Donnell
Camden Courier Post – Feburary 26, 1930 National Park, Feb. 26–Boxing fans here still are mulling over…
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Three Women Claim Body of ‘Gimp’ Thomas
Who is the legal wife to claim Howard Thomas and how did he get badge number 188 of the Camden Police Department?
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Mrs. Amartha Cybulski To Be Buried Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Cinkowski Cybulski, 53, who died Thursday, in her home at “The Willows”, Park Avenue and Laurel Lake, Laurel Springs, will be held at the home Monday at 8.30 a. m. Requiem High Mass will follow at St. Joseph’s Church, Tenth and Mechanic Streets. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
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Hurley Gets Contract for Police Uniforms
Contract for new police uniforms was awarded yesterday to the Hurley store by the city commission, which heretofore had contracted with a Philadelphia firm.
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Broadway Merchants Trust Dividend
The Board of Directors of Broadway Merchants Trust Company have this day declared a quarterly dividend of 3 percent out of earnings for the past three months, payable April 1, 1930, to stockholders of record at the close of business March 26, 1930. Checks will be mailed.
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Boys Held in Gem Theft
Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
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Bank Teller is Held for Shortage of $2000
Alleged to have embezzled approximately $2000 from the South Camden branch of the First Camden National Bank and Trust Company, a former teller was held in $3000 bail by U. S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong yesterday on a Federal warrant.
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Owner Sues to End Lease on Pekin Cafe
Camden Courier Post, April 12, 1930 Suit to break the lease held on the Pekin Cafe, 818…
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Johnny Lucas Wins Millville Battle
Millville, Aug. 5 – Johnny Lucas, of Camden, won a popular decision over Ray Gadsby here tonight tn the eight-round windup at the Millville Punchbowl. More than 100 fans gathered to witness the bout.
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Whiz Five to Clash with Peerless Foe
All the tension connected with advance preparations will subside at 8 o’clock tonight when two of the eight teams in the Camden County Industrial League start the race for the 1930 championship. The opening event will be a clash between R.M. Hollingshead and the Peerless Kid Quintets and the action will be served as a preliminary feature to the Eastern League contest at the Convention Hall annex.
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WEARSHING READY FOR OPENING NIGHT
Grover Wearshing, whose football feats and dazzling play on the basketball boards, form a glowing part of the athletic history of Camden High School and Temple University, has enlisted with the Camden Club in the Eastern League and will join the team when the inaugural skirmish with the Kennett Square (Pa.) quintet is staged at the Convention Hall annex tonight.
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Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game
Identified as four of the five bandits who held up and robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom yesterday, Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths are under arrest today.
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Roxie Allen Held as One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup
Roxie Allen, Camden’s famed welterweight boxer, and one of his pals were arrested last night and Identified, according to police, as two of four men who held up a craps game early yesterday at Landisville. Loot is said to have totaled between $150 and $200.
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Roxie’s Pals Confess
With four suspects, including Roxie Allen, Camden welterweight boxer, still held without bail, the State Police today continued their search for the fifth bandit in the $200 holdup of a Landisville poolroom Sunday afternoon.
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Lewis H. Stehr, Chief of Police, Dies Suddenly
Funeral rites for Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died suddenly at 11.30 a.m. yesterday in Cooper Hospital, will be conducted at 2 pm on Saturday.
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Pallbearers Named for Stehr Funeral
Funeral arrangements were completed yesterday for Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died Wednesday in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack.
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“Man O’ War” Escapes After Pistol Battle
Felix Boccichicco, Notorious Mt. Carmel Character is Sought by Authorities After Gun Battle with Police
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Old Stockton’s Three Parks Kept Police Force on Jump
East Camden used to have three parks “in the old days” — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force “on its toes.”
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Woman Says Bus Crash Hurts Caused Her to Age 20 Years
Allegedly, she has aged 20 years since she was injured in a Public Service Coordinated Transit bus crash two years ago.
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Fake ‘Floyd Gibbons’ Seeks Freedom Here
Henry Luellowitz, 28, of Los Angeles, who was arrested here last June after posing as Floyd Gibbons, will seek his freedom from the county jail today in application for a writ of habeas corpus.
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Vaudeville and Radio Stars to Feature ‘Relief Ball’ of Shriners Tomorrow Night
Nine vaudeville acts, radio celebrities and a popularity contest will feature the first annual professional show and dance of the Camden Shrine Club of Crescent Temple tomorrow night in Convention Hall.
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16 Beauties to Vie for Honors Tonight
Sixteen South Jersey girls are competing in a popularity contest which closes tonight at the first annual professional show and dance of Camden Shrine Club in Convention Hall.
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Shrine Club’s Relief Fund is Swelled as 4000 Applaud at One of Greatest Shows
The relief fund of the Camden Shrine Club, which will aid its unemployed and distressed members, was swelled by several thousand dollars last night from the receipts of one of the greatest vaudeville shows ever seen in the Convention Hall.
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Ash Can Girl ‘Out’ Again; Parents Held
…And finally, on Wednesday night, her parents beat her and threw her from the house.
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ROBBERY GANG OF 4 GIVEN LONG TERMS
Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
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Train Hits School Bus
One man was seriously injured last night when a passenger train and a school bus crashed at the East State Street crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Wiley Post Visitor at Central Airport
Wiley Post, who, with Harold Gatty, holds the round-the-world speed record, was a brief visitor to Camden yesterday when the E. A. T. plane in which he was a passenger stopped for ten minutes at Central Airport.
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Six Are Arrested Following ‘Party’
Three pretty girls, a married man and two youths were arrested last night on charges growing out from an extended whoopee party in a Blackwood Terrace bungalow.
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Camden to Have New Fight Club
An attempt to revive boxing here at the Convention Hall will be made on Friday night, October 30, it was announced yesterday by promoters of the enterprise.
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Camden to Have New Fight Club
An attempt to revive boxing here at the Convention Hall will be made on Friday night, October 30, it was announced yesterday by promoters of the enterprise.
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Camden Concern Sees Gain in Orders
By the use of Masonite insulation in the roof and side walls, it is possible to eliminate a large part of this heat loss, so that fuel costs in many cases, may be reduced from 25 to 40 percent.
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7 DEMOCRATS RALLIES IN COUNTY TONIGHT
Democratic speakers, urging suffrage in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and the local Democratic ticket, will invade seven political clubs in the city and county tonight.
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Democrats to Hold Meetings Tonight
Camden Courier-Post – October 29, 1931 The campaign foe A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities or the county tonight.
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Moore In Camden Speech Demands Fairness at Polls
Camden Courier-Post – October 29, 1931 Demanding a fair election and protection to Democratic voters, A. Harry Moore was greeted here last night by the largest crowd to gather at a Democratic meeting in Camden’s recent history.
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MOORE RALLIES TONIGHT IN 3 WARDS, ASHLAND
Camden Courier-Post – October 31, 1931 Rallies in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local candidates on the Democratic ticket will be conducted tonight in Ashland and in three wards of the city.
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P.S. Purifier Detonates in South Camden
A terrific explosion in the purifying plant of the Public Service Gas and Electric Company at the Southeast corner of Locust and Cherry Streets killed 14 men today and injured four others, one of whom may die.
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Held As White Slaver
Baltimore, Md., March 25 – A former Stratford, N.J. resident is one of 11 men who were indicted here by a federal Grand Jury which began probing white slave activities after a fatal shooting at a Bladensburg, Md., roadhouse last fall.
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Popularity Race Puts on Speed, Leader Passes 100,000 Mark
Camden Courier-Post – June 6, 1932 Readers of the Courier-Post newspapers who have asked themselves these questions may see the contestants in person tonight. They will be introduced from the stage of the Stanley Theatre at the beginning of the second show.
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G. O. P. Club Harvest Home
The Twelfth Ward Women’s Republican Club will hold a Harvest Home at the Health Center, Thirty-first and Fremont avenue, on Saturday from two until nine o’clock. Members will bring a box supper.
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Sheriff’s Sale
BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF FIERI facias, to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, will be sold at Public Venue…
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‘Buck’ Sage Held as ‘Hit-Runner’
A detainer against Russell “Buck” Sage, held in Gloucester on a hit-run charge, was lodged last night by Camden police.
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Committeeman Abbott to be Guest of Honor
Camden Courier Post – June 11, 1932 Frank Abbott, recently elected Democratic county committeeman from the Fifth ward, will be honored Tuesday night at a testimonial dinner at 941 South Fourth Street.
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Sentiment Ruled in Rejecting Bid, Pastor Declares
An offer of $5,300,000 for purchase of the Church of the Immaculate Conception property, bounded by Market, Broadway, Federal and Seventh streets, was disclosed yesterday in Circuit Court here.
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4 YOUTHS ARRESTED IN BICYCLE THEFTS
A ring of bicycle thieves was broken last night with the arrest of four youths and recovery of five bicycles and parts of several others.
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Camden Loses Out In Deaths By Auto
Washington, June 22 – Camden no longer has the unenviable distinction of having the highest death rate from automobile accidents of any large city of the country, the United States Census Bureau announced today.
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New Athletic Club Here is Inspected
The new City Athletic Club building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards was inspected last night by the membership, when plans for immediate opening were discussed at a mass meeting attended by 100.
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City Athletic Club to Act on Opening
Plans for early occupancy of the City Athletic Club’s building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards, will be submitted to members at a mass meeting Monday at 7.30 p. m.
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Ludington Lines Sale is Rumored
Sale of Ludington Air Lines, operating between New York and Washington with a landing field here at Central Airport, appeared certain yesterday with Eastern Air Transport as the prospective purchaser.
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Fire Routs Workers
Forty employees, including several women, were driven from the plant of the Reynolds Leather Company, in rear of 816 Division Street, when a fire was discovered there yesterday.
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Studebaker Agency in Larger Quarters
V. M. Fulton, president of MacFulton, last night announced removal of his salesroom to 1400 Haddon avenue in “automobile row.”
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Owl’s Studio Dance
The Owl’s Studio tonight will present Willard Rodman and his Hotel Hildebrecht orchestra, one of the best known “syncopation manufacturers” in the East. The studio at 418 Market street, promises to be the mecca of many dance lovers tonight.
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Polish Air Hero to Visit Factories in Camden
A tour of Camden’s leading industrial plants following a reception at Central Airport has been arranged for Stanley F. Hausner, the “Flying Pole” of Newark, when he is the guest of this city Thursday.
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Depression Is Over Concern’s Slogan
“The Depression Is Now Over” is the slogan adopted by these three men who head Mother’s Koffee House. 1913-21 Broadway. Under their direction the concern is showing a steady growth. Left to right they are I. M. Masner, in charge of coffee roasting and tea blending; E. A. Barnes, sales manager and R. H. Benson, in charge of the wholesale trade and buying.
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Injured Players to be Feted by Dooley A.A.
The Dooley A.A. will provide a dance and floor show and turn the proceeds over to football players who were injured while playing.
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City Athletic Club Plans Refinancing
A Plan for refinancing of the City Athletic Club was approved by several hundred members who met Monday night in the building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards.
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JOE MONTANA WED TO MISS PALLADINO
Miss Emma Palladino, one of the fairest daughters of Camden’s “Little Italy” yesterday became the bride of Joseph Montana, heavyweight wrestler, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Fourth and Division streets.
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City Adopts Cut Budget After Clash
The Camden City Commission yesterday approved the 1933 city budget after hearing and rejecting economy recommendations of several civic and labor organizations.
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It’s ‘Agin the Law’ to Sell Rum Here Without a License
Somebody opened a “store” at 15 South Fourth Street yesterday, without the formality of first obtaining a “soft drink license’.
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400 Friends Pay Homage to ‘Good Gray Poet’
That’s Mickle Street where Walt Whitman, the “Good Gray Poet,” once lived, and old friends came back here from near and far yesterday to mingle under the portals of the house in which he wrote his famous works, on the 114th anniversary of his birth.
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Faulty Alarm Causes Bank Robbery Scare
A crossed wire in the Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Company’s burglar alarm system caused a bank robbery scare for a few minutes yesterday afternoon.
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Pyne Poynt Plans All-Day 4th Party
Plans for the thirty-third anniversary of the Pyne Poynt Athletic Association to be observed with an all day program at Pyne Poynt Park July 4 were discussed last night at a meeting in the Pyne Poynt Social Club, 929 North Fifth Street.
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BREWERY OFFICE RANSACKED IN MYSTERY THEFT
In a mystery “robbery” that has police puzzled, the thieves broke through a glass window on the rear loading platform, climbed inside and proceeded to turn three different offices of the brewery “inside out” in their quest.
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First Lady – ‘Just a Passenger’ As She Starts Flight to Coast
Mrs. Roosevelt took her place at the airport ticket window this morning in a line of 10 persons.
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Vets in Colorful Memorial Crowd Convention Hall
More than 2500 persons attended a joint veterans memorial observance in Convention Hall which followed a parade of veterans and civic organizations yesterday afternoon.
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Jewish Charities Raise $1500 Here
Camden Courier-Post – June 7, 1933 More than $1500 in pledges and in cash have been received in the campaign of the Camden Federation of Jewish Charities, it was announced last night by E. George Aaron, chairman of the campaign committee. The drive will continue through this week.
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Legion Auxiliaries Plan June Events
Both the Fairview and Mt. Ephraim American Legion Auxiliaries have scheduled events for this week. This evening the Fairview group will have its Installation of officers, and tomorrow evening the last of a series of monthly card parties will be held by the Mt. Ephraim women.
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Pancoast Refuses to Let Cops Bare Holdup Evidence
Police Judge Pancoast yesterday held two suspects without bail in the recent $11,790 Radio Condenser Company holdup and two other youths as material witnesses.
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Borden to be Guest of Realty Board
Edward J. Borden will be guest of honor tonight of the Camden County Real Estate Board at a banquet in honor of his election as president of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
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Flag Day Service Planned By Elks
An elaborate Flag Day celebration to be open to the public and broadcast over the radio is planned by Camden Elks for Monday night.
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