The oldest News Articles which have been transcribed and posted
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Voodoo Doctor’s List Of Murders
Helena Independent, Helena, Montana – April 11, 1925 Kept Data on People Slated “To Go” Camden, N. J., April 10. – Mysterious memoranda, which name persons listed "to go" and others "to be ruined," have been uncovered by police, while investigating the home of the 71-year-old negro, who, police say, was an alleged voodoo doctor.…
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‘Girl Farm’ At Voodoo Cavern
Camden Courier-Post – April 11, 1925 Doc Hyghcock Brought Maids from Florida Got Them Jobs as Domestics at Eight Dollars Each—Used Half Dozen Cars P.O. Inspectors Grill Him This Afternoon Will Charge Him with Using Mails to Defraud – Scan His Letters Worries over Silk Hats Investigations of the various activities of “Doctor” H.H. Hyghcock,…
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Camden Voodo Man Once Kept Den in Norfolk, VA
Camden Courier-Post – April 14, 1925 Police Learn Hyghcock Ran Another Underground Hotel Years Ago Driven Out of Town Came to Philadelphia Excavation of Cellar Here for Bodies Starts as Owner Gives Consent Mayor King to Direct Armed with picks, axes, and shovels a detail of police and firemen started this afternoon to tear up…
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Sorcerer Held on New Charge
Syracuse Herald, Syracuse NY – April 19, 1925 Camden, N.J., April 18.— The charge of suspicion of murder under which H.H. Hyghcock, alleged “Voodoo doctor” 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…
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Leon E. Todd – Realtor
Camden Courier-Post – July 5, 1926 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. Leon E. Todd – Realtor 2623 Westfield Ave., East Camden
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Spearing Challenges Local Lightweights
Camden Courier-Post – June 11, 1927 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. Spearing, who is being handled here by Hubert Cook, is a strong, willing mixer and…
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Boxer, Sayrs’ Aide Nabbed in Tipsy Row
Camden Courier-Post – January 2, 1928 Bertman Frees Both After Police Tell of Fuss at Brewer’s Cafe Mickey Blair, Camden pugilist, and Thomas Schneider, secretary to Commissioner William D. Sayrs. Jr., started the New Year by getting drunk and becoming both abusive and pugnacious when ordered away from Horace Brewer‘s restaurant on Market street, it…
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Kausel Is Given $4000 Job Over Hot Protest by Rebel in G.O.P.
Camden Courier-Post – January 3, 1928 Not Fitted for Job and 20 of You Admitted it Declares Van Meter Collingswood Man’s Insurgency Punished Vocational School Incident is Recalled as Democrats Join in Battle Joseph H. Van Meter, insurgent Republican freeholder from Collingswood, today declared that David Baird Jr., Republican leader, had admitted that Theodore Kausel…
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Roxie Allen Starts New Year in Impressive Style by Shading Al Del Galdo in Convention Hall Finale
Camden Courier Post – January 3, 1928 Boots and Michaels Add Two More Kayo Victims Long and Short Knockout Artists of Riverside put Quietus on Opponents Grande Beats Ross By Tom Ryan The year of 1928 evidently is going to be kinder to Roxie Allen, one of the best local lightweights, than the last one…
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Not 1928’s First Born After All
Fond Parent Seek Honors For City's First 1928 Baby Who is Camden's first 1928 baby? 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. Up to the present time the honor had been bestowed on the daughter of…
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Jewelry Clerk Held in Robbery of Store
Camden Courier-Post – January 7, 1928 Loot Values at $2000 Taken from Broaday Shop; Second Visit of Thieves 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. At noon today, Joseph Shapiro, 29…
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Old Doc Hyghhat Hyghcock
Camden Courier-Post – January 9, 1928 Old Doc Hyghcock comes back into the news, wearing hip boots and a high hat. The hip boots and the high hat and the crazy old car he drove are funny. The absence of a driver’s license and the presence of a loaded revolver were fair business for the…
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Walter Staats Quits As Victor Vice President
Camden Courier-Post – January 9, 1928 Gives Up Charge of Export Department to Enter Insurance Firm IN EMPLOY OF COMPANY DURING PAST 21 YEARS No Successor is Named; Was One of Johnson’s Aides in 1901 Formal announcement of the resignation of Walter J. Staats as vice president of the Victor Talking Machine Company, in charge…
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Frankie Rapp Favored to Eclipse Records of All Local Boxers
Camden Courier-Post – January 10, 1928 Critics Predict Great Ring Future for Former Camden Catholic High School Baseball and Basketball Star Has Scored 12 Knockouts in 17 Bouts By Tom Ryan Is Frankie Rapp, South Camden lightweight due to eclipse the performance of every scrapper who has ever been developed here? That is the question…
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City League Clubs Begin Second Half
Camden Courier-Post – January 10, 1928 Two Games at Convention Hall Tonight; Two New Clubs Join Circuit Second-half competition in the Reesman basketball league will begin tonight with a twin bill at Convention Hall. Thirteenth Ward, which holds the edge in the yet unfinished first-half race, meets the formidable Camden Police quintet. Wayne and Ninth…
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Rotary Club Told of Industrial Drive
Camden Courier-Post – January 11, 1928 C. of C. Secretary Outlines Plan to Make Comprehensive Survey An industrial campaign for the purpose of inducing new business industries to locate in Camden will be part of the program of the Chamber of Commerce for this year, Loyal D. Odhner, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, told…
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Fairview Legion Post Installs Officers
Camden Courier-Post – January 13, 1928 C. Richard Allen, commander and other new officers of Fairview Post No. 71, American Legion were installed last night in the Legion home, 1392 Collings Road. The installing officers were Herbert A. Blizzard, state vice-commander and Dr. Samuel Loveman, past state adjutant. In addition to Allen, the new commander,…
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Local Legion Post to Put on Fight Show
Camden Courier-Post – January 13, 1928 Sergeant Ray Smith Heads Committee In Charge of Arrangement for Jousts Not to be outdone by any local organization, Corporal Raymond C. Thoirs Post, of the American Legion, passed a resolution last night in favor of staging a monster boxing show at Convention Hall sometime next month. Half the…
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Stone Discounts Fumigation Value
Camden Courier-Post – January 13, 1928 Health Head Says It Gives False Sense of Security Fumigation as a method of preventing disease was discounted by Dr. Arthur L. Stone, city health director, in talk yesterday before the Y’s men’s Club at the Hotel Walt Whitman. “It gives a false sense of security,” he declared. “It…
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Gangster Shot During Melee In Sixth Ward
Camden Courier-Post – January 14, 1928 Joseph Deven Held On Murder Charge After Death Boxer’s Brother; ‘Mose’ Flannery and 4 others Held as Witnesses; Was Craps Game Says County Police Holdup Attempted City Cops Declare Victim of a shot fired in a melee, the exact cause of which remain undetermined, Joseph Cimini, 31 years old,…
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Polish-American Club Re-Elects President
Camden Courier-Post – January 16, 1928 Vincent Raczykowski was elected for the third consecutive time as president of the Camden County Polish-American Republican Club at the annual meeting held in the clubhouse at Tenth and Liberty streets. Other officers elected were: B. Bubnowski, vice president; Frank Bleja, financial secretary; A. Grzeczkowski, recording secretary: Joseph Kracvyk,…
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Woolworth Leases East Camden Site
Camden Courier-Post – January 16, 1928 ‘Five-and-Ten’ to Occupy Proposed Building at Twenty-Sixth St. F. W. Woolworth is invading East Camden with his “five and ten.” A 20 year lease was signed today, under the terms of which the merchant magnate will pay more than $150,000 rental for a store to be erected at the…
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Murder Motive at G.O.P. Club Splits Sleuths
Camden Evening Courier – January 16, 1928 County Detectives Contend Philadelphia Gangster Was Slain in Quarrel Over Woman Police Claim Hold-up Attempt Caused Fight Deven Charged with Crime, Flannery and Taxi Driver Held Without Bail With city and county authorities definitely divided on the motive and circumstance if the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph…
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Love Plot Fades as Motive Behind Clubhouse Killing
Camden Evening Courier – January 17, 1928 Mrs. Katherine Rosalie Denies She is “Chick’s Girl” or “Anybody’s Girl,” But Thinks Flannery and Cimini May Have Used Her as Excuse for Starting Fatal Fight. The suspected “love motive” in the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying broke down today under the glaring light of investigation. It was…
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Wins Another
Camden Courier-Post – January 17, 1928 JACKIE HINDLE, Camden lightweight who beat Harry Larsen, of Atlantic City last night in the eight round semi-final at the Northside A.C., Atlantic City NJ. It was Hindle’s third victory in four starts since his attempted “comeback.”
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Grand Jury Will Consider Slaying After Probe Ends
Camden Evening Courier – January 18, 1928 Investigation in the slaying of Joseph Cimini in the Sixth Ward Republican Club Saturday, is “far from completed,” Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Varbalow announced today. Although the Camden County grand jury went into session this afternoon, he added, the case will not be presented to that body today. “We…
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Battle Echo of Murder at Club
Camden Evening Courier – January 18, 1928 Mrs. Rosalie and Her Rival for ‘Chick’ Hunt Describe Event in Court Pretty, piquant Katherine Rosalie – for love of whom men are declared to have fought to the death in the rooms of the Sixth Ward Republican Club, today waged her own fight against her self-avowed rival…
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13th Ward G.O.P. Club Pays Tribute to Rhone
Camden Courier-Post – January 18, 1928 A meeting which was described today as “a gathering in honor of David S. Rhone, director of public safety,” was held last night at the Thirteenth Ward Republican Club, Haddon Avenue and Mechanic Street. The speakers included David Baird Jr., Mayor Winfield S. Price, Commissioner Clay W. Reesman, Sheriff…
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“Mose” Flannery Released on Bail
Camden Evening Courier – January 19, 1928 Shay Signs Order After $5000 Bond is Posted in 6th Ward Fuss Joseph ‘Mose’ Flannery, declared by detectives to have precipitated the battle in the Sixth Ward Republican Club which resulted in the slaying of Joseph Cimini last Saturday, was released from the Camden county jail us afternoon…
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Dealer Denies Thieves Took Slot Machine
Camden Evening Courier – January 20, 1928 Bertman Doubts His Story After He ‘Shifts’ Loot to Cigars Is liable to a fine on gambling machine Grand Jury Probe is Hinted by Judge – Reporter Takes Stand Lewis Shectman changed his story in police court today and declared that it was only a box of cigars,…
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Sixth Ward G.O.P. Club Installs New Officers
Camden Courier-Post – January 20, 1928 The newly-elected officers of the Sixth Ward Women’s Republican Club, 908 Broadway, were installed last night. The installation was conducted by Mrs. Anna Moffett, county committeewoman of Gloucester. Those installed were Mary S. Hartung, president; Mrs. Jennie F. Sayrs, first vice president; Mrs. Theodosia Conaghy, second vice president; Mrs.…
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Flannery Promises to explain Slaying
Camden Evening Courier – January 20, 1928 Statement Will Set Forth Facts of G.O.P. Club Murder, Attorney Says With Joseph “Mose” Flannery at liberty under $3000 bail, a statement setting forth his part in the Sixth Ward Republican Club affray which resulted in the slaying of Joseph Cimini last Saturday, was promised today by his…
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Charles Danenhower – Obituary
Camden Courier-Post – January 24, 1928 Charles Danenhower, resident of Camden for nearly fifty years, died early this morning at his home on Park Avenue, Merchantville. He had been ill for nearly four weeks, suffering from the ailments of old age. He was 85 years old. Danenhower had spent most of his life in Camden.…
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Ghost Sniper Shoots at Bus, Fells Cop at Bridge Plaza
Camden Courier-Post – January 25, 1928 Blue Marble Found After ‘Shot’ Knocks Officer Down at 4 AM Windshield of Bus Strangely Shattered Four Private Cars Also Have Been Targets; Probers Are Baffled Probing a mystery that sounds more like fantastic fiction than serious fact, police of Camden and officials of the Camden Bridge today were…
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‘Chick Hunt’s Girl’ Gone
Camden Courier-Post – January 25, 1928 Husband Dismissed When Brunette of Sixth Ward Shooting Fails To Appear in Court Back into the notice of Camden’s Police Court, but not into its courtroom, Katherine Rosalie came today. The attractive 23-year-old brunette “who was known as “Chick Hunt‘s girl” during the investigation of the Sixth Ward Republican…
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Rotary Club Lends to 16 College Boys
Camden Courier-Post – January 25, 1928 Eight Camden Youths, Now Graduates, Are Repaying Loans Eight Camden boys last September were able to continue their studies in college and universities because, back in 1923, a Camden service club established a loan fund to aid worthy students. Eight Camden boys, graduates of college, now are repaying various…
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Fairview Club Women Observe Drama Day
Camden Courier-Post – January 25, 1928 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…
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New Street Lights
Camden Courier-Post – January 25, 1928 City Workers Start Laying Out System of “Safety Islands” on Cooper Street City employees today started installing a new system of traffic lights and laying out six “safety islands” on Cooper Street, under the direction of James A. Howell, acting chief of electrical bureau, and Charles Humes, captain of…
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“Ghost Sniper” Fires on Store in Cramer Hill
Camden Courier-Post – January 26, 1928 Mystery Baffles Police as No Bullet is Found Inside Shop CLEAN HOLE IS CUT THROUGH DOOR GLASS Camden’s “phantom sniper” has made his appearance in Cramer Hill. Using the same mysterious method as that employed by the unknown gunner who has shot holes in the windshields of five automobiles…
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Robberies Laid to Old Mansion as Thieves Den
Camden Courier-Post – January 26, 1928 Marauders Declared Using Former Reeves Home on State St. as Lair POLICE TELL VICTIMS TO KEEP THEFTS QUIET Aroused Householders Threaten to Act As Own Cops Failure of city officials to heed repeated complaints that a deserted and dilapidated mansion at Third and State Streets is a “rendezvous of…
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Ghost Sniper Seen! Fires on 2 Girls, Bullet is Found
Camden Courier-Post – January 28, 1928 See Man Fleeing After Missile Crashes Through Window of Home “It’s All Right Louie” He Cries on Street Crowded Merchantville Trolley Fired on But No Pellet is Found Camden’s “phantom sniper” has been seen. The man who had terrorized occupants of motorbuses, drivers of automobiles and residents of homes…
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Camden Centennial Will Start Feb. 13
Camden Courier-Post – January 28, 1928 Week of Celebration at City’s Convention Hall to Mark Anniversary 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. Most…
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Patrons, Patronesses Announced Today for First Military Ball
Camden Courier-Post – January 28, 1928 Patrons and patronesses for the first military ball of the Camden Post No. 960, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to be held on Friday evening February 3 in the Elks auditorium, Seventh and Cooper Streets, are announced today. The following prominent men and women are listed: Mrs. J.W. Connor, Miss…
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Reeve Mansion Ordered Razed by City Official
Camden Courier-Post – January 28, 1928 Commissioner Rhone Tells Building Inspector, Fire Marshal to Investigate DILAPIDATED STRUCTURE CALLED DEN OF THIEVES State Street Residents Complain After Robbers Use House as Rendezvous Termed a 'rendezvous of thieves, a haven for spooners and a general nightmare, the deserted and broken down mansion at Third and State Streets,…
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Judge Shay to be Next Prosecutor
Camden Courier-Post – January 31, 1928 Camden Trenton Bureau 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. The name was submitted to Governor Moore last…
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Girl Tells of Leap to Escape Captor
Camden Courier-Post – January 31, 1928 Youth Accused by Child of Luring Into House is Held for Trial After little 10-year-old Mamie Zimmie, 1181 Morton Street, finished telling a story of how she had been lured into a house, and had escaped by leaping to the ground from a porch roof. Police Judge Bernard Bertman…
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Guns Await Sniper in Suburban Towns
Camden Courier-Post – February 4, 1928 Mystery Marks 16th Effort as Victim Gives Fake Address With orders to “shoot on sight” issued to suburban police in their search for South Jersey’s “phantom sniper,” that mysterious individual today had a “phantom victim,” At the Haddon Heights police station is a piece of glass with the notation…
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Police Invite Bandits to Nice Shooting Party
Camden Courier-Post – February 4, 1928 But Yeggs Must Leave Gats at Home While Cops Practice With Camden’s new Desperado Eliminators Wanted: Targets for Camden's new desperado eliminators. Bandits, burglars, snipers and their ilk are requested by Chief of Police James E. Tatem to apply at police headquarters Monday morning at 10 o'clock, when a…
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CAMDEN – A Great City Growing Greater
Evening Courier – Centennial Anniversary Edition – February 13, 1928 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,…
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Roxie Allen Faces Reid In Shore Final Tonight
Februrary 13, 1928 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,…
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Allen Tops Eddie Reid
Camden Courier-Post – February 14, 1928 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. The Camden ringster carried seven of the eight rounds, fighting one of the greatest battles of his meteoric career. Reid gamely took the…
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PA. Girl is Nabbed Here on Way to Get Married
Camden Courier-Post – February 20, 1928 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. Today she is waiting in the detention home at police headquarters for her father, who has told police he would come to Camden to take…
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Monitor Survivor Relates Historic Merrimac Fight
Camden Courier-Post – February 20, 1928 Captain James H. Carey, retired employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad and one of the last survivors of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac will celebrate on March 9th the sixty-sixth anniversary of the event. He was one of the Monitor’s crew. Captain Carey, born in Philadelphia, has…
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The Reign of Terror — And the Sniper
Camden Courier-Post – February 23, 1928 Editorial Page Of this much we are sure-the Phantom Sniper, whose activities have attracted attention far beyond the boundaries of Camden cannot indefinitely go on, challenging the public, and escape the consequences of his illegal actions. Twenty-five times he has hit his mark. Are they shots from a gun…
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Sniper Hits Auto of Atco Farmer
Camden Courier-Post – February 23, 1928 Gloucester Home Also Fired On by Mysterious Gunman Reports of three more shootings credited to the phantom sniper bought the mysterious gunman’s score close to the 50-mark today. Louis Ware, who is known as the “Asparagus King of South Jersey,” at midnight last night discovered a hole the size…
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Teller In Coma Held in $19,000 Theft At Bank
Camden Courier-Post – February 25, 1928 Burd S. Garrett, of Hillcrest, is Under Guard at West Jersey Hospital Believe He Took Poison as Discovery Neared East End Trust Protected; Man Returned to Home Today Semiconscious Burd S. Garrett, 42 years old, 200 Wayne avenue, Hillcrest, near Merchantville, was placed under technical arrest this afternoon as…
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Bank Embezzler Jokes When Taken to County Prison
Camden Courier-Post – February 28, 1928 Garrett Waives Reading of Indictment for $19000 Systematic Thefts; His Wife Remains Loyal, Discrediting His Confession 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…
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Colanduno Guilty of Dope Peddling
Camden Courier-Post – February 29, 1928 Jury Out Less Than Hour; ‘Babe Paradise’ Up Next Week Convicted by a Criminal Court jury of conspiracy and the possession and sale of narcotics, Joseph Colanduno, 29 years old, 431 Walnut Street, said by police to be a member of a powerful dope ring in Camden, will be…
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Six-Foot Wide House Here Declared World’s Narrowest
Camden Courier-Post – Unknown Date, 1928 Two-Story Brick Dwelling at 754 Federal Street Takes Palm Long Accorded 10-Foot Residence in Amsterdam London may boast of its House of Parliament and Buckingham Palace, Paris may point with justifiable pride to the Louvre; Washington may have its White House and Philadelphia the Betsy Ross House, but residents…
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Man’s Head Cut Off By N.Y. – Camden Train
Camden Courier-Post – April 2, 1928 Albert Carpenter, 40, 2928 Mitchell street, was killed instantly yesterday by a New York-Camden train of the Amboy division, Pennsylvania Railroad, at Thirty-second street. The man was picking coal from the ground at the side of a coal car near the tracks along which the train was coming. He…
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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 the South Jersey flyweight championship, defeated Midget Ambrose, of Vineland, in the six-round windup here last night at the Belmont Fire Hall. Indian Russell, of Philadelphia, knocked out Davey Taylor, of Merchantville, in the third round of the…
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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 at the Manayunk A. C. last night. Harry Gimble returned to the ring and knocked out Jose Diazeno, of Cuba, in the fifth round of the semi-final. In the main preliminaries, Tiger Johnson beat Frank Mitchell and Al…
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Old Doc Hyghcock Nabbed with Ancient Sedan, Gun
Camden Courier-Post – January 7, 1928 "Doctor" Reyouque E.H.H. Hyghcock, whose underground "House of Terror" at 415 Liberty Street brought him much publicity and a prison cell two years ago, was arrested today in Collingswood. He was charged with having a loaded revolver in his possession and driving a motorcar without a license. When the…
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Business Men Form Third National Bank
Camden Courier-Post – January 20, 1928 Financial Institution Backed by East Camden Interests 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…
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Charity Battles Attract Big Crowd
Camden Courier-Post – January 28, 1928 Fifteen sizzling amateur boxing bouts, together with nine acts of vaudeville, were presented to a capacity crowd in the St. Joan of Arc Church gym, Fairview. The proceeds derived from the affair will go toward the church building fund. In the feature bout, Bob Zimmerman, of Fairview, unintentionally fouled…
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Spearing May Give Michaels Real Tilt
Camden Courier-Post – August 28, 1928 East Camden Lightweight is Rapidly Developing Into Windup Performer 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. It only has…
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Michaels Anxious to Beat Spearing
Camden Courier-Post – August 29, 1928 Riverside Youngster Out to Erase Cabana Defeat; Spearing Has Iron Jaw The Joe Spearing-Joey Michaels bout, which is 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. Spearing is rapidly…
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Allen Takes Thumping But Gets Even Break
Camden Courier-Post – September 1, 1928 Former Maine Ringster Wins Four Rounds, Loses Three, Splits One in 8-Round Fuss 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…
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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
Camden Courier-Post – September 12, 1928 Hard-Hitting Middleweights Meet in Prelim to Forgione-McGorgary Bout Tuesday 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…
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Safe Combination Blown; $350 Stolen
Camden Evening Courier – September 18, 1928 Three Offices on Haddon Ave. Entered; Flannery Shooting Angle Seen 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…
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Trenton ‘Phantom’ Gains Verdict Over Local Italian for Third Straight Time
Camden Courier Post – September 19, 1928 By TOM RYAN 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…
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Bomb Wrecks Division Street Dairy in Midnight Blast
Camden Evening Courier – October 11, 1928 JEALOUSY SEEN AS MOTIVE FOR BOMBING DAIRY Police Seeking Mysterious Stranger in Terrific Downtown Blast MILK PLANT DAMAGED; NEARBY HOMES ROCKED Crudely Made Explosive Placed in Trench Beneath Steps With the owners and the police attributing jealously of business success as the only plausible motive for the bombing…
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Doris Indictment Studied by Police
Camden Courier-Post – May 1, 1929 Begins Probe of Flannery Case Records; May Press Connors Charge First 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. Although uncertain whether to try Doris immediately on the Flannery murder indictment, or…
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Shooting May End in Murder Charge
Trenton Evening Times – April 29, 1929 Camden, N.J., April 29—John Doris, 24, was held today on the charge of shooting John O’Connor, 28, of Gloucester City. If O’Connor dies, the Prosecutor said Doris would be charged with murder. Doris’ brother, Frank, was executed several years ago for complicity in a murder committed during the…
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Gangster Shot As Racketeers Open War Here
Camden Courier-Post – April 29, 1929 Gloucester Man Near Death After Attack at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue Felled Near Quarters of Camden Gamblers Brother of Frank Doris Accused After Police Round up 10 Men Shooting of an alleged racketeer at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, near the threshold of one of South Jersey’s notorious reputed gambling…
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Brother Follows Killer’s Footsteps
Albany Evening Journal, Albany, NY, April 29, 1929 Held for Shooting Camden, N.J., April 29 (UP),—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. The prosecutor declared that if the man shot, John O’Connor, twenty-eight, Gloucester City, died,…
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J. Gordon Dooley
Variety Magazine – January 29, 1930 J. Gordon Dooley, 31, comedian for the vaudeville team of Dooley and Morton,died January 24 at his home In Philadelphia of tuberculosis. Dooley, going from vaude to legit, had appeared in a number of Broadway shows, including “Vanities,” Ziegfeld’s “Follies, “Honeymoon Lane,” and “Hitchy Koo.” He had entered vaude…
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P. O. S. A. Will Present Flag to Junior High
Camden Courier-Post – February 10, 1930 A parade is being planned by the Patriotic Order of Sons of America for Washington’s Birthday, when a flag will be presented to the new Woodrow Wilson Junior High School by Camp No. 25. The parade will be formed at the Harry C. Sharp School, Thirty-second Street and Hayes…
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Death Cheats Wife of Mate’s Surprise
Camden Courier-Post – February 14, 1930 Bus Kills Husband Returning Unexpectedly, From Distant Work 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. Returning unexpectedly last night from Auburn N. Y., where…
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Wimer Appointed as County Manager
Camden Courier-Post – February 14, 1930 Kausel Given Leave of Absence and Miss Denery Is Made Acting Head Until March 15 The Camden County Board of Freeholders late yesterday confirmed the appointment of William E. Wimer as general manager of Camden county institutions. Theodore T. Kausel, who tendered his resignation January 1 to become effective…
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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 the weekly fistic exhibition held last night at the Belmont Fire Hall. Six scraps comprised the program and nearly every bout on the card was a wild affair. In the six-round wind-up Hughey Civatti, of Philadelphia, won the…
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2 New Members Added to Election Board
Camden Courier-Post – March 12, 1930 With two new members, William E. King, Republican, and James J. Mulligan, Democrat, the Camden County Board of Elections reorganized yesterday. Mrs. Lottie B. Stinson, Republican, was re-elected chairman, and Mrs. Emma E. Hyland, Democrat, secretary. Victor Scharle, Democrat registrar, announced that two new election districts had been added…
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Gun Toter Fined $150 After Leniency Plea
Camden Courier-Post – March 12, 1930 Found guilty of carrying a gun, Richard H. Morrow, 24, of 2319 Howell Street, as fined $150 by Judge Shay in Criminal Court yesterday. He will be permitted to pay the fine in installments. The fine was imposed after a plea for leniency was made by Morrow’s attorney, Bernard…
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Three Women Claim Body of ‘Gimp’ Thomas
Camden Courier-Post – March 25, 1930 One Is ‘Daughter,’ Others Say They’re Wives; Badge Mystery Unexplained Who is the legal wife of Howard “Gimp” Thomas, under cover man for Camden police, whose death in an automobile upset early Saturday morning near Ellisburg is being investigated by county authorities? Three women have attempted to claim the…
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Fines Total $1005 in Weekend Raids
Camden Courier-Post – March 25, 1930 Three Proprietors Assessed $100 Each! Two Disorderly Houses and Restaurant Hit A weekend of raiding in which 59 men and women were arrested in two disorderly houses, and a restaurant dispensing beer enriched the coffers of the Camden city treasury yesterday by $1005. Proprietors of the three establishments were…
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C. F. Squillace Gets Suspended Sentence
Camden Courier-Post – March 25, 1930 Year in Prison Withdrawn Because Lawyer Has Made Restitution After he had changed his pleas of not guilty to non vult Charles F. Squillace, former Camden attorney, was given one year in state prison by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday afternoon and then the sentence was suspended. Squillace was…
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Hurley Gets Contract for Police Uniforms
Camden Courier-Post – March 29, 1930 Contract for new police uniforms was awarded yesterday to the Hurley store by the city commission, which heretofore had contracted with a Philadelphia firm. Changes in the uniforms of several of the police departments are planned by Chief Lewis H. Stehr and Captain Arthur Colsey. Because many bus companies…
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Mrs. Amartha Cybulski To Be Buried Monday
Camden Courier-Post – March 29, 1930 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…
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Broadway Merchants Trust Dividend
Camden Courier-Post – March 29, 1930 BROADWAY MERCHANTS TRUST CO. 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…
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Second Mrs. Murry Drops Estate Fight
Camden Courier-Post – March 29, 1930 Eight-Year Controversy over Property of Former Detective Ends Here An eight-year controversy over the estate of former City Detective George Murry, one time alleged vice czar of the Third Ward, ended yesterday when Wife No.2 withdrew her claims. Murry, who died under mysterious circumstances on the eve of going…
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Boys Held in Gem Theft
Camden Courier-Post – March 29, 1930 Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. One of the boys, William McGinnis, 11, of 2639 Carman Street,…
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Bank Teller is Held for Shortage of $2000
Camden Courier-Post – April 11, 1930 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. The accused man is Nelson Lamar, 36, of 445 Kaighn…
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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 Broadway by James Richardson, proprietor, has been filed by Mrs. Emma J. Lickfield, owner of the property. That action was revealed after Judge Avis in Federal court here ordered the cafe padlocked. Judge Avis granted Richardson three weeks…
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3 Youths Held as Blaze Razes Grain Plant of Sitley and Son
Camden Courier-Post – April 18, 1930 Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today…
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Johnny Lucas Wins Millville Battle
Camden Courier Post – August 9, 1930 Camden Mauler Gets Popular Decision Over Ray Gadsby in Punchbowl Windup 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. The Camden battler…
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Camden Boxer Aims to Return to Ring
Camden Courier-Post – August 11, 1930 Young O’Connor Wants to Stage Comeback in Police and Firemen Show “In this corner, Young O’Connor, of Camden. He weighs 145 pounds!” It has been many a day since South Jersey fistic followers heard that announcement within the ring. But it won’t be long now before it will be…
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Garrett Cowls, 81, Succumbs Suddenly
Camden Courier-Post – October 1, 1930 ‘Grandfather of Baseball in Camden’ Stricken With Indigestion Camden’s “Grand Old Man of Baseball” is dead. Garrett Cowls, who bore the title of “grandfather of baseball in Camden” died at noon yesterday, surrounded by his treasured keepsakes, in the parlor of his home, 416 Taylor Avenue. He was 81…
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Whiz Five to Clash with Peerless Foe
Camden Courier-Post – November 12, 1930 Industrial League Starts Pennant Scramble at Convention Hall Annex Tonight 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…
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Wearshing Ready for Opening Night
Camden Courier-Post – November 12, 1930 By STEVE O’KEEFE, Morning Post Sports Editor Temple Hero Enlists With Lobley for Eastern League Fray With Kennett Square Huge Crowd is Expected 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…
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