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Hot Flashes
Fire Watch Magazine, Summer 1977: "Hot Flashes" captions five Camden fire scenes from April and May 1977, including 235 Pine Street, South Camden.
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The Grim Shadow of Death Stalks Firemen’s Family
Martin DiCarlo's Camden Courier-Post column on the Iannelli family: Camden firemen Frank Iannelli and his sons Leonard and Carmen all died of heart attacks on the job, in 1942, 1964 and 1975.
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Funeral Rites Held For Cops Killed By Gunman
Funeral services for two rookie Camden policemen gunned down in a senseless killing early last Saturday morning, July 5, were held for one Wednesday and the other will be held today.
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Family of Six Escapes Fire
Mrs. Girlene Garrett and her six children escaped a two-alarm fire that gutted their home at 832 North 3rd Street in August 1968; Acting Battalion Chief John Gryckiewicz and Hoseman Edmund Gorczynski were treated at Cooper Hospital for burns.
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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 Suspects Held in Bail of $25,000 Each
William J. Porter, 26, and Howard James, 25, linked by Camden police with 10 burglaries in six weeks, were held in $25,000 bail each by Municipal Judge Marino. Among the jobs James admitted was a break-in at a grocery at 635 Carman Street.
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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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Camden Fire Alarms
Courier-Post list of Camden fire alarms from midnight Sunday to midnight Monday, including fires on Stevens and Benson Streets, a rubbish fire on North 3rd Street and an auto fire at 4th and Viola Streets.
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Hospital Cases
Camden Courier-Post hospital cases column of August 14, 1956, listing nine people treated at West Jersey and Cooper hospitals for minor injuries, 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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Order Razing of 6 Buildings as Fire Hazard
Six Camden properties on Newton Avenue, Segal Street, Carpenter Street, 250 Burns Street, and Kaighn Avenue were ordered demolished as unfit for habitation and fire hazards.
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Hospital Cases
Cooper and West Jersey hospital cases 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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Seven Violate Trucker Rule On Boulevard
Four truck drivers were fined in Camden Municipal Court for failing to keep right on Admiral Wilson Boulevard, three forfeited security, and two Camden men, one of 20th Street near Pierce Avenue, were fined for drunken driving.
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Camden Fire Alarms
Fire alarm log for Camden, midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday, February 1, 1954, including a call at 1069 Diamond Street for a possible careless smoker.
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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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Burglary Victims Recover $4360 In Stolen Goods
Camden detectives returned about $4360 in stolen goods to burglary victims at City Hall in April 1952 and held parolee George Wilmer as the suspected daytime "phantom burglar."
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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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Director Abbott Celebrates Birthday at Vasco’s
Camden Public Works Director Frank Abbott celebrated his birthday with more than 100 friends at a party at Vasco's, Third and Pine streets.
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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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United States Pipe Organ Co.
Page 75 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the United States Pipe Organ Co. at 121-125 N. 18th St., Philadelphia, Rosen Bros. furriers at 1030 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John DelDuke, Wells Drug Stores, Inc. at 25th and Federal Streets and 27th St. and Westfield Ave., the East End Junk Co. at 2105 Federal Street, Leo's Mfg. Co. at 1113 S. Third Street, Katharine Byrne, Spuhler's Grille at 2312 Federal St., and Lynch's dry cleaning at 523 Market St. and 2640 Federal St.
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Poor Little Homo's
Page 18 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for Poor Little Homo's, West Jersey Cafe, at Third and Market Streets, "where good friends meet."
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Walter J. Beer
A 1943 "Compliments of" page in the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book for four Camden Pepsi-Cola distributors: Walter J. Beer, Liberty Bottling Co., M & L Distributing Co. and South Jersey Bottling Co.
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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
Death notice for Accursia Lazzarone, 59, beloved wife of the late Stefano Lazzarone, who died July 28, 1941. The funeral was to be held from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Calogera Costantino, 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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Checked and Double-Checked
James M. O'Neill's "Checked and Double-Checked" column, signed JIMINY, in the Camden Courier-Post of February 19, 1938: a courthouse joke from the "bingo" numbers racket arrests, David Baird's plan to replace registrar Harry Ecky with Bill Lehman, and a run of social notes, including an old photograph found near Broadway and Federal Street.
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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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A. Harry Moore Club to Hold Rally Tonight
A mass meeting of Democrats was to be held at 8 p.m. by the A. Harry Moore Third Ward Democratic Club at Third and Benson streets, with Postmaster Emma E. Hyland and Prosecutor Samuel G. Orlando among the speakers.
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Weccacoe Company Made Camden History As Leaders of Early Volunteer Fire Fighters
The second installment of Frank Sheridan's 1936 Courier-Post history of fire fighting in Camden traces the Weccacoe Fire Company, whose headquarters moved to the old City Hall lot on Federal Street, and the Mohawk, Independence and Shiffler volunteer companies.
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Pay Theft Tale Faked, Radio Worker Admits
Anthony Carrozza, a 20-year-old RCA Manufacturing Company employe, admitted faking a kidnaping and robbery story after cashing 12 fellow workers' pay checks at the West Jersey Trust Company, Third and Market streets; Detectives Thomas Murphy and August Fortune recovered the money in Philadelphia.
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Elimination of 20 City Blocks Urged by Housing Committee
The Camden Housing Advisory Committee recommended that the city clear 20 blocks of sub-standard properties, 895 dwellings in two areas, to save on municipal service costs; Mayor Frederick von Nieda favored eliminating the areas but opposed spending city money without assurance of a return.
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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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False Alarm Leads to Arrest of Three
A false fire alarm for a smoking stove at 230 Taylor Avenue led police to a 17-year-old girl hiding in a closet; she was held for vagrancy and two others as material witnesses.
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Three Women Nabbed Here on Vice Charges
Viola Lewis of 807 Locust Street was arrested as the alleged proprietor of a disorderly house, and Cleo Chacker and Hattie Green as inmates, after Patrolman James McTaggart was accosted on Locust Street.