People
William E. Jaeckel
William E. "Pud" Jaeckel (1888–1961) joined the Camden Fire Department in 1920 and served over thirty years with Engine Company 9 at North 27th and Federal Streets in East Camden, retiring on pension in January 1951.
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20th Street
People
Harold H. Pike
Harold Hadley Pike Jr. (1926–1998) served the Camden Fire Department for over 30 years, rising from ladderman to Fire Marshal and Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
People
Henry J. "Beanie" Keating Sr.
Henry Joseph "Beanie" Keating Sr. (1920–2002) was a Camden firefighter who joined the Camden Fire Department on December 1, 1953, transferring from the police department, and served with distinction for over twenty-five years before retiring January 1, 1979.
Streets
Howell Street
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
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Boyd Street
Boyd Street runs through East Camden parallel to Marlton Avenue, from Carman Street to the Pennsauken city limits. Originally named Pfeiffer Street before 1924, it gained notoriety in the late 1980s and 1990s as part of the open-air drug market known as "the Alley."
Streets
Berwick Street
Berwick Street is in East Camden, running through the 2000 and 2100 blocks between Rand Street and Marlton Pike; the street was extended to South 20th Street after the McGuire Gardens housing project was built in 1954.
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20th Street
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
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Gladys Jones
Death notice of Gladys Jones, 59, of 250 South 20th Street, Camden, who died May 16, 1969, survived by a daughter, four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
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Mrs. Flora E. L. Langdon
Obituary of Mrs. Flora E. L. Langdon, 68, of 1137 North Twentieth Street, a member of Epiphany Lutheran Church, who died in West Jersey Hospital in April 1952.
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Mrs. Stella Wright
Obituary of Mrs. Stella Wright of 1139 North Twentieth Street, mother of Patrolman Earl Wright, who died July 30, 1941.
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Eleventh Ward Frolic to Aid Boy Athletes
The Eleventh Ward Athletic Club at 1014 North Twentieth Street planned street dancing and boxing exhibitions to raise funds for better athletic quarters for the ward's boys.
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Robbery Gang of 4 Given Long Terms
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal 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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Burglar Robs Woman of $3 in Hour of Terror
A masked burglar menaced Mrs. Ernest McLaughlin of 1226 North Twentieth Street for an hour, then fled; neighbor William Murphy of 1221 North Twentieth Street was identified, arrested, and held without bail.
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Men Nabbed in Raids Held in Bail for Court
Harry Lightman of 1240 North Twentieth Street and Harry Mans of 1229 North Twentieth Street were each held in $1,000 bail after raids found a 100-gallon still at each address in February 1927.
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Samuel Collins
Ex-policeman Samuel Collins was held in $300 bail for throwing a brick through the window of Peter Murphy's hotel at Seventeenth and Federal Streets in Camden.