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Barrington Man Given 30 Days for Bad Check
Camden Courier-Post — February 23, 1954 A Barrington man went to county jail for 30 days after Judge Dzick ruled him guilty of passing worthless check for rental of an auto.
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Six Firemen Cited Here for Heroism
Six Camden firemen were cited for heroism in rescuing children from a burning apartment at 444 North 5th Street; bartender Michael Cimini of 925 North 22nd Street was also recognized for saving four children before the firemen arrived.
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Police Investigate 3 Fires in 4 Hours In One Section
Kaighn School Razed; Blazes Set in Church, Unoccupied House Police today are investigating the possibility that three fires Wednesday within a quarter-mile area inside of three hours and 46 minutes were the work of a firebug.
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Mrs. Emma G. Woods
Camden Courier-Post, June 5, 1948 — funeral notice for Mrs. Emma G. Woods of 618 South Fifth Street, a life-long Camden resident, with Requiem Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
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Fireman Toy Dead From Auto Crash
Veteran Camden fireman William Earl Toy died of injuries suffered when Acting Chief William Van Pfefferle's car, which he was driving to a fire at Berwick and Boyd streets, collided with a Public Service bus at Sixteenth and Federal streets.
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South Camden Garage
Page 48 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the South Camden Garage at 539-41 S. 5th St., wholesale confectioner John B. King at 3816 Westfield Avenue, Ralph's Esso Service at 2706-14 Federal Street and Rice & Holman of Merchantville, around the last installment of the parish history, which counts more than 2,600 families and 705 schoolchildren and recalls the move from 25th and Howell Streets to 29th and Westfield.
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Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire
The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester at 713 Broadway was destroyed by a two-alarm fire of undetermined origin following an explosion. Eight companies fought the fire for seven hours, and damage was estimated at $100,000.
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City Schedules Sale of Garage Building
The City of Camden scheduled the sale of a one-story public garage building with 28 individual garages at 2626 Carman Street, acquired for unpaid taxes, along with seven other tax-delinquent properties including vacant land on Twenty-seventh Street south of Garfield Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, July 4, 1941.
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Tug Blast Averted by Rookie Fireman
Rookie Camden fireman John Gryckiewicz, five weeks on the job, pulled a burning rope from around a 50-gallon gasoline drum aboard the tug Pacific at the American Dredging Company docks in December 1940, preventing an explosion.
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Firemen Pallbearers for Lester Anderson
Funeral arrangements for Lester R. Anderson, 38, of Engine Company No. 2, who died in his sleep at the Fifth and Arch Streets fire house; Arthur Batten was among the pallbearers, all members of the engine company.
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Hospital Cases
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 26, 1938, including Marie Cahill, 5, of 2168 Berwick Street, treated for brush burns on her hand.
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Mrs. Annie M. Johnston
The Camden Courier-Post funeral notice of February 18, 1938 for Mrs. Annie M. Johnston, wife of Daniel A. Johnston, who died at her home at 904 Howard Street; requiem high mass at the Church of the Holy Name and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
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Leo P. Bridgeman
Funeral services for Leo P. Bridgeman, 32, of 425 Bailey Street, who died yesterday following a long illness, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Church of the Holy Name, Fifth and Vine streets.
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Vacuum Cleaner Sale Sends Seller to Cell
Accused of fraud in connection with the sale of a vacuum cleaner, Leonard Hauser, 39, of 218 North Eighth Street, yesterday was arrested and held on $1000 bail for a hearing Monday in Camden police court.
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Cops Find No Trace of Man Identified as One of Bandits
Police of four states hunted a known suspect in the holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street in which Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1110 Langham Avenue was seriously wounded; the card players were held as material witnesses.
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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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Two Men Jailed in Theft Plot Try to Involve G.O.P. Club Aide
Michael Maloni and Dominick Vizzone, convicted of robbing Ninth Ward Republican Club employee Jacob Mutzer, claimed he had plotted with them to steal the club's slot machines at 536 Broadway; Judge Frank F. Neutze said their story "doesn't ring true" and sentenced them to four months.
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Committees Named for Tenth Ward Ball
The Tenth Ward Republican Organization Club named committees for its tenth annual ball, held February 28 at Eagle's auditorium on Broadway. Earl Wright served on the program committee.
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Taps Sound for Jack Airedale, Canine Mascot of Fire Laddies
Camden firemen and policemen gave Jack, the Airedale mascot of the Headquarters Fire Company at Fifth and Arch Streets, a hero's funeral in November 1934 after he was crushed under the wheels of his own truck. An estimated 3500 people passed his bier, and taps were sounded over his grave at sunset; Arthur Batten was among the honorary bearers.
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2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children
Scores of children on their way to school were endangered when two horses hitched to a bakery wagon ran away in South Camden streets, ignoring red traffic lights and shouts of pedestrians and motorists.
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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 Man Stabbed, Assailant Is Caught
Jesse Brown stabbed in a quarrel on Taylor Avenue; his alleged assailant caught on Camden Bridge after Jennie Worona of 208 Burns Street told police where the knife was thrown.
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Camden Protected During Big Blaze
With all of Camden's apparatus at the Kaighn's Point conflagration, three off-duty firemen, Captain Clarence Madden and Firemen John Mulligan and George Garner, broke into the discontinued Fourth and Vine streets firehouse, drove its truck to headquarters at Fifth and Arch streets and stood by on call; Chief John H. Lennox commended them.
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Bonding Employes Creates Efficiency
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of June 19, 1933 for the Smith-Austermuhl Co., N.W. corner of Market and Fifth Streets, urging that every major employee be bonded: "Better to have Insurance and not need it than to need it and not have it."
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Storm Snaps Heat Plague; 4 More Drown
Man and Woman Struck by Lightning; Mercury Tumbles A violent electric storm, which paralyzed a South Camden woman, accompanied by a driving rain tumbled the mercury last night and ended, temporarily, the six-day heat wave.
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Vets in Colorful Memorial Crowd Convention Hall
Military and Civic Organizations Parade in Camden and Join Services Addressed by Clergy and Congressman Wolverton More than 2500 persons attended a joint veterans memorial observance in Convention Hall which followed a parade of veterans and civic organizations yesterday afternoon.
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License of Driver Freed, Is Revoked
A South Camden man, convicted in police court of drunken driving, but acquitted on his appeal to Judge Samuel Shay, will seek reinstatement of his driver's license which was revoked officially today by Motor Vehicle Commissioner Harold G. Hoffman.
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Two Men Arrested After Auto Crash
After a March 1932 collision near Leonard Avenue and Federal Street, Basil P. Cook of 449 North Fifth Street and James Fenton of 834 North Sixth Street were arrested on charges including assault, threat to kill, and reckless driving, on complaint of C. N. Morrow of 7 North Twenty-eighth Street.
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Democrats to Hold Meetings Tonight
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
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7 Democrats Rallies in County Tonight
Democratic speakers, urging suffrage in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and the local Democratic ticket, will invade seven political clubs in the city and county tonight.
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Truth Stranger Than Fiction
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of October 16, 1931 for the Smith-Austermuhl Co., insurance, real estate, mortgages and investments at Fifth and Market Streets, promising prompt adjustment of fire insurance claims day or night: "It is better to have insurance and not need it than need it and not have it."
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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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Pallbearers Named for Stehr Funeral
Funeral arrangements for Camden Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack: his body would lie in state at the Schroeder Chapel, Broadway and Royden streets, with burial in Harleigh cemetery. The article lists the active and honorary pallbearers.
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Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All
Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928: Ben Courter's profile of William L. Hurley, who built a small store at Fifth and Pine streets into the Gately & Hurley store at Broadway and Pine streets on a policy of square dealing, and who championed the Camden bridge and the extension of Broadway.
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Promoted Firemen Take Posts Today
Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1928. John H. Lennox was promoted to deputy chief and Rollo Jones to battalion chief of the Camden Fire Department, eight men were elevated to senior and junior captain, and eleven new firemen were appointed.
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Garage Watchman Foils Whiskey Theft
A night attendant at Herman Z. Cutler's garage at Fifth and Arch streets saw a man carrying a box up an alley and called police, frustrating a second attempt within ten days by thieves to steal whisky from George Beringer's drug store at Fifth and Federal streets.
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Guns Await Sniper in Suburban Towns
With orders to "shoot on sight" issued to suburban police hunting South Jersey's "phantom sniper," a man giving a fake name reported a 16th shooting that investigators could not verify, while a 15th victim came forward separately in Collingswood.
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Parents Announce Girl's Engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fenner of 615 Grant Street announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Rose M. Fenner, to John A. Harrison.
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Cases Treated at Homeopathic
Cases treated at the Homeopathic Hospital in Camden on October 28, 1922, including William May, 48, of 2110 Berwick Street, treated for lacerations of the elbow.
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Nine New Police From Nine Wards
Mayor Frank S. Van Hart swore in nine new Camden policemen, one from each of nine wards — including Edward C. Hahn of the Tenth Ward — with five more appointments to follow.
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Important!
A Camden Daily Courier advertisement in which Bornstein Electric Co., formerly at 930 Broadway, announced its new location at the southeast corner of Fifth and Pine Streets with a full line of electrical goods, wholesale and retail.
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City Is Mourning Carrigan's Death
Camden's municipal buildings, police stations and firehouses were draped in mourning for Captain Martin Carrigan, who died of injuries received fighting the Kaighn Avenue fire; city council voted to pay the expense of his funeral.
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Captain Carrigan Dies of Hurts in Kaighn Ave. Fire
Captain Martin B. Carrigan of Engine Company No. 2 died at Cooper Hospital of a fractured skull and severe burns received while leading his men at the Economy Store fire on Kaighn Avenue.
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14 Camden Firemen Overcome by Smoke
Fourteen firemen were overcome by smoke and roughly $20,000 in damage was done during a twelve-hour fire at the Frank G. Hitchner Wall Paper Manufacturing Company at Fifth and Mickle streets; water from the plant flooded nearby cellars, including John Orr's home at 441 Judson Street.
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Hold Boys for Rifling Mail
Two 12-year-old boys, William Shafer and George Hickman, admitted to Detective Brothers that they rifled the mail box at Broadway and Pine Street, Camden, stealing two packages of jewelry worth $102 mailed by jeweler Lewis Nelson.
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Firemen of Long Service Receive Good Promotion
Fire Chief John A. Stockton resigned after thirty-one years of service and City Council chose Deputy Chief Peter B. Carter as his successor, setting off a general move up in the Camden Fire Department.
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North Camden News
The monthly supper at Camden Fire Headquarters, Fifth and Arch streets, featured German sour krout served by Lieutenant Jim White, with Chief Charles Worthington and Assistant Chief John A. Stockton among the speakers.
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North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked
Hundreds of Houses Ruined by Violent Wind and Rain and two Persons May Die; Streets Strewn with Debris Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night.
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Margaret Oberst Bride of Mr. West
Miss Margaret M. Oberst, the pretty and talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Oberst, of 809 South Fifth street, was married yesterday morning at 11 o'clock in SS. Peter and Paul's Church, St. John and Spruce streets, to Mr. James B. West, Jr., a prominent plumber and stepson of John McGowan, of 501 Trenton avenue.
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Injured Fireman in Restless Night
Camden Post-Telegram, May 20, 1910: fireman Arthur Wingate, driver of the combination chemical and hose wagon, passes a restless night at Cooper Hospital after the team crashed into an iron column of the elevated railroad at Haddon Avenue and Line Street.