Tag: 27th Street
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25 Years Later, Prep Football Game Shootout Resonates
Camden Courier-Post – November 21, 2004 By Kevin Callahan Although he would rise to the pinnacle of college football just four years later by winning the Heisman Trophy, Mike Rozier‘s last play for Woodrow Wilson High School was spent looking down in the dirt on the field that would later bear his name. "I never…
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Camden Bank, Business Bldg. Targets of Two Firebombings
Camden Courier-Post – December 22, 1971 Volkswagen Impounded by Police By Joseph R. McCarthy and Douglas Campbell, Courier-Post Staff There was a loud bang from the back room of the Third National Bank of New Jersey, Camden at 7:34 am. today, just after Miss Sara Matthews, head bookkeeper, had left and shut the door. When…
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Stockton Annexed Against Protest of Democrats
Camden Courier-Post – March 24, 1949 Fifty years ago, the old town of Stockton was annexed to the City of Camden over the protests of Democratic members of the town council. But a Republican Legislature approved a bill introduced by former Justice Frank T. Lloyd on March 24, 1899. He was a member of the…
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Obituary, Robert T. Abbott
Camden Courier-Post – February 8, 1939 ABBOTT – On February 7, 1939, Robert T., husband of the late Margaretta Abbott (nee Schuck), of 2891 Tuckahoe Rd., Camden, NJ., age 72 years. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services, Saturday afternoon, February 11, at 2 o’clock at the Sudler Funeral…
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Robert Abbott Dies, Ex Policeman Here
Camden Courier-Post – February 8, 1939 Retired Sergeant, 73, Stricken With Pneumonia at Seashore Home Robert T.” Bobby” Abbott, 73, retired Camden police sergeant and brother of William S. Abbott, former member of the Board of Education, died yesterday at West Jersey Hospital after a week’s illness of pneumonia. He had been retired since 1921.…
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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. The meetings and speakers are as follows; Sixth Ward Democratic Club, Fourth and Walnut Streets; E. George Aaron, Samuel…
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Democrats to Hold Meetings Tonight
Camden Courier-Post – October 29, 1931 Candidacy of Moore to be Expounded at Meetings in City and Suburbs 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. All meetings and speakers are as follows: Second…
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Old Stockton’s Three Parks Kept Police Force on Jump
Camden Courier-Post – April 3, 1931 Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall 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…
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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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Boy’s Brutal Murderer Collapses At Hearing
Camden Courier-Post — October 14, 1912 Coursey Breaks Down While Story of Cold-Blooded Killing of Karl Kellmann is Told by Detective; Two ‘Pals,’ Too, Accused of Crime Collapsing when arraigned in Police Court this morning before Recorder Stackhouse on the charge of killing Karl Kellman, aged 18 years, of 2919 High Street, at Twenty-seventh and…