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Old Stocktons Three Parks Kept Police on Jump
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Old Stockton's Three Parks Kept Police Force on Jump

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 "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.

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Boys Held in Gem Theft

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.

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George Edmund Duble yearbook entry, 1930
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George Edmund Duble

Yearbook entry for George Edmund Duble of 213 North Twenty-eighth Street, Technical Course, Camden High School class of 1930. He transferred from Hayward High School in Wisconsin and served as President of the English Club.

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Joseph Sparks obituary — Camden Courier-Post, May 21, 1928
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Joseph Sparks

Policeman Joseph Sparks, a city employee for 17 years, died at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital from spinal meningitis. He lived at 20 North Twenty-eighth Street and had served as a patrolman since 1918, after seven years as a junior captain in Fire Company No. 7.

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East Camden Notes — Camden Post-Telegram, October 20, 1923
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East Camden Notes

James H. McDermott purchased one of the Lorigan-Hurley homes at 23 North Twenty-eighth Street.

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Two Suspects Admit Having Robbed House — Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 1914
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Two Suspects Admit Having Robbed House

George Laws and Edward Thomas, 22, of 413 North 28th Street, admitted ripping a water pipe from a vacant house at 22nd and Howell Streets and attempting to rob the home of Frederick Voigt at 222 North 32nd Street, where they were caught by a neighbor.

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Newspaper clipping: Sunday Ordinance to Be Tested in Higher Court
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Sunday Ordinance to Be Tested in Higher Court

Attorney Harry C. Kramer announced he would carry Camden's liberal Sunday ordinance to a higher court after his client Louis Weisban, of 28th Street and Polk Avenue, was fined $10 for selling a scrub brush and soap powder on a Sunday.

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