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Notice of Application
Vasco's Cafe, Inc. applies to the Camden ABC board for a plenary retail consumption liquor license at 713 South Third Street; officers include Armando and Kathryn Canzanese of 3217 Braxton Walk.
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Fireman Honored On His Retirement
Fireman Edwin Wirtz of 2010 River Avenue was feted at a buffet luncheon at Camden fire headquarters on his retirement after 22 years of service; his last assignment was as an inspector in the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
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3 Firemen Grads Given Assignments
Three graduates of the Camden City Fire Training School received their company assignments in July 1964 — Truman Maples of 1024 North 35th Street, Ernest A. Fagan of 105 South 35th Street, and Spencer Smith 3d of 1523 Collings Road.
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McGuire, Hartmann Among The Early Organizers of Labor in City
A Camden Courier-Post retrospective on the origins of organized labor in Camden, centering on Peter J. McGuire and on the father-and-son cigarmakers Frank and Robert Hartmann, whose Third and Arch Streets factory housed the movement's earliest meetings. Robert Hartmann was elected first president of the Camden County Central Labor Union in 1908.
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9 Firemen Graduate In City Test
Nine of Camden's newest firemen, including Wayne Kraft of 1052 North 35th Street, graduated at fire headquarters at 3rd and Arch Streets and received their company assignments.
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Guilty Plea Entered In Dice Game Killing
James Walker pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of Herbert L. Abbott of 1243 South 3rd Street, killed during an argument over a dice game at 211 Line Street in May 1961.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital cases from Camden on November 8, 1958, including Joseph Kelly of 67 South 28th Street (cut scalp) and Raymond Ross of 1223 North 28th Street (cut arm) treated at Cooper Hospital.
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Two N. Camden Men Attacked by Thugs
Two North Camden men, including Joseph Packer of 621 Grant Street, reported being attacked in separate street assaults in December 1957.
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Jury Action Set Today in Fraud Trial
The embezzlement trial of Camden attorney Charles F. Murray was expected to reach a jury, after testimony from his former secretary Mrs. Bernice Brown of 614 South 3rd Street.
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Hospital Cases
West Jersey and Cooper hospital admissions for August 1956, including John Coney, 5, of 2035 Kossuth Street.
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Marriage Licenses
Camden marriage license announcements from August 14, 1956, including William Coleman of Lawrence Street and Evelyn A. Bond of 1031 North 18th Street.
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Hospital Cases
Cooper and West Jersey hospital admissions reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.
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Fire Captain in Pearl St. Blaze
A Courier-Post account of a Pearl Street fire in which Capt. John Gryckiewicz carried a resident to safety; District Chief Howard Gick described the blaze.
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Three Men Held Without Bail in Tavern Holdup
Three men arrested in Atlantic City in the $2000 holdup of Lynch's Cafe at 3rd and Erie Streets were held without bail by Judge Dzick; the getaway car had been recovered on 7th Street between Liberty Street and Kaighn Avenue.
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Proprietor Fined For Short Weight
Phillip Livecchi, proprietor of a store at 423 South Third Street, was fined $25 in Camden municipal court on a short-weight charge brought by a state bureau of weights and measures inspector.
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100 Friends Honor Director Abbott At Birthday Fete
Camden Courier-Post - June 2, 1950 Public Works Director Abbott had a birthday Thursday and more than 100 of his friends and associates helped him celebrate it at a surprise dinner.
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Man Held for Jury In Firing of Shot
Albert Wallace of 316 South Third Street was held for grand jury action in Camden municipal court, charged with firing a shot through the door of a friend's home on Berkley Street.
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Detectives attend Brennan funeral
By GEORGE ZACHARIAS As they prepared to take John Brennan on his last ride, Rocco Auletto , known to the fight world as Roxie Allen , was held in $5000 bail for further arraignment next Friday and detectives spread the dragnet for five men believed implicated in the gangland execution at 17th and Rittenhouse Streets.
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Mrs. Roseanna Currie
Mrs. Roseanna Currie, 83, widow of Howard H. Currie, died of a heart attack at her home at 219 North Third Street. She was born in Camden and lived there all her life.
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Hospital Cases
A Camden Courier-Post "Hospital Cases" column of July 31, 1941, listing emergency-room admissions to Cooper and West Jersey hospitals — among them Patricia Titus, 8, of 2005 Arlington Street.
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Lazzarone
Death notice for Accursia Lazzarone, 59, beloved wife of the late Stefano Lazzarone, who died July 28, 1941. The funeral was held from the residence of her daughter at 617 Line Street, Camden.
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3 Bros. Markets
A July 1941 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for 3 Bros. Markets, listing four store locations — 7th & Vine and 3rd & Birch in North Camden, 9th & Pine and 6th & Walnut in South Camden — with weekend meat specials.
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Billiard Room Owner Held in Gaming Raid
Frank Manfredi, proprietor of a billiard parlor at 1146 South Third Street and a former Camden prizefighter known as Freddie Mack, was fined $100 for operation of a gaming house after a dice-game raid.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital admission report from West Jersey and Cooper hospitals, Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1940 — among those treated, Charles Neff of 39 North Thirty-third Street and May Davis of 1146 Clover Street.
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MAGIN PROMOTES 3, REHIRES 3, FIRES 4
Temporary Laborers Dismissed, While Men Ousted by Hartmann Are Reinstated Three dismissals, three promotions and four reinstatements and two new hirings were announced yesterday by City Commissioner Henry Magin , director of public works.
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11 Nabbed by Police in Gambling Raids
Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1938 7 Arrested in Bingo Numbers Racket; 4 Seized in Betting Place Ten men and a woman were arrested in gambling raids over the weekend by Camden city and county authorities.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
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7 Held as Cops Raid Card Game in Home
Seven men were arrested last night when police raided a private home after receiving a “tip” that a card game was in progress.
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Vets' Job Preference Victor Reviews Program of Contest In Address to Ex-Service Men
Test Case Decree Awaits Jurist's Signature Today On Federal Employment Camden Group Endorses Action of Philadelphia Martine The Philadelphia veteran of the World War who was responsible for obtaining a court ruling safeguarding veterans rights for preference on Federal employment projects, last night told his story to Camden ex-service men.
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Man's Skull Fractured in Automobile Crash
Camden Courier-Post - December 15, 1934 Injured when his car overturned after a collision at Third and State streets yesterday, William Russell, Jr. , 907 York street , is in Cooper Hospital with a fractured skull.
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43 Camden Recruits Thrive In Chill Conservation Camp
Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.
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Camden Market For Farmers Open At 3rd and Pearl
The farmers' market at Third and Pearl streets, under the Camden Bridge, was formally opened with more than 50 farmers occupying stalls under rules requiring each to have grown 75 percent of his produce.
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Wiley Will Open More Rooms for Homeless Men
Wiley M. E. Church opened another ten-cent rooming house at 741 Kaighn Avenue in June 1932, with 25 beds, alongside the 65 at its Wiley Haven for Homeless Men at 601-605 South Third Street.
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Job in North Jersey Wins Release in Court
Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third Street, told Police Judge Pancoast he was leaving for North Jersey to start working, and received a suspended sentence on a disorderly conduct charge as a parting gift.
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Records Altered, Court Rebukes Cop
Police Judge Pancoast rebuked Patrolman Charles Smith for altering a complaint and warrant, striking a youth's name from the record, and found the two remaining defendants not guilty.
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Neighbors in Argument; Ex-Prisoner Arrested
Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third Street, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after an argument with two other men living at the same address.
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Moore Rallies Tonight in 3 Wards, Ashland
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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Four Prominent Physicians
Ben Courter's 1931 Camden Courier-Post reminiscence of four leading South Jersey physicians — Drs. Godfrey, Iszard, Davis and Gross — recalling how Dr. H. H. Davis transformed health care for Camden's schoolchildren.
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Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup
Roxie Allen, Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and Carmen Passarella of 1227 Broadway were arrested and identified by police as two of four men who held up a craps game at Landisville, where the loot was said to total between $150 and $200.
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Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game
Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths were held without bail after being identified as four of the five bandits who robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom.
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Widow's Home Robbed
Thieves entered the second-floor apartment of Mrs. Flora B. Scannell at 29 North Third Street and took $1000 in jewelry and $100 in cash hidden in a bureau drawer.
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Marriage Licenses
Marriage license notices from Camden and Media, Pennsylvania, including Michael Duffy of Philadelphia and Catherine Sharp of 1138 Thirty-first Street, Camden, October 1930.
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2 Camden Youths Held on Burglary Charges
Two Camden youths held in $2500 bail each on charges of breaking and entering 208 Burns Street and stealing revolvers.
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Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia
More than 1500 guests attended the reception at the Sons of Italy Hall after Miss Jennie Maroccia of South Third Street married Louis Cavallo of 314 Kaighn Avenue at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
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Sixty Day Jail Term Given to Milk Thief
Joseph Knecht, 20, of 328 Byron Street, was sentenced to 60 days in county jail for stealing milk from doorsteps at Third and Erie Streets.
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Women Endorse Johnny Carroll; 'Harmony in 5th'
The Fifth Ward Women's Republican Club unanimously endorsed John H. Carroll for county committeeman, with Councilman Julius Allendorf declaring "perfect harmony in the Fifth Ward."
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Johnny Carroll O.K.'d for County Committee
The Fifth Ward Republican Club endorsed Johnny Carroll, cabaret proprietor at Third and Cherry Streets, for re-election as county committeeman, along with councilman Louis Bantivoglio.
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Former Detective Murry Drops Dead In Street
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
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Smoke Overcomes Fireman
Fireman Charles Gladney was overcome by smoke while fighting a fire at the Wearwell Gasket Company on the second floor of 32 North Third Street, Camden, and was carried out by Fireman Edgar Ellender.
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Here and There in Camden
Albert Garrison of 2211 South Tenth Street was treated at Cooper Hospital after his face was lacerated by a falling casting.