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6th Street

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3 Youths Held as Blaze Razes Grain Plant of Sitley and Son

Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today destroyed the warehouse of Sitley & Son , wholesale hardware, roofing material and grain dealers at Sixth and Bulson streets.

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2 Men Denied Bail in Ward Shooting, Camden Courier, June 12, 1925
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2 Men Denied Bail in Ward Shooting

Edward C. Dillon and Edward Brennan were held without bail by Recorder Cleary on charges of atrocious assault with intent to kill, after Policeman Robert Ward was shot investigating suspicious men near Sixth and Everett streets.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1918 — Nelson Hardy Jailed
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Nelson Hardy Jailed

Nelson Hardy was committed to the county jail in default of $2000 bail for attacking Mary Boullion of 1911 Kossuth Street.

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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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Halseys Committed for Disorderly House newspaper clipping
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Halseys Committed for Disorderly House

Harry Halsey and his wife, of Sixth Street and Kaighn Avenue, were committed to the county jail on a charge of keeping a disorderly house after a raid by Captain Stanley and squad.

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Camden News Notes newspaper clipping
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Camden News Notes

Camden briefs for May 27, 1906, including Captain of Police Stanley's investigation into a ring of Yale lock keys found on the roof of a house near Sixth and Chestnut Streets.

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News of a Day in the City of Camden
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News of a Day in the City of Camden

Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton.

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A dog, supposed to be mad, was shot by Policeman Anderson at Sixth and Mickle streets yesterday, after the animal had terrorized the neighborhood.
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A Dog Was Shot

Philadelphia Inquirer - February 18, 1897 A dog, supposed to be mad, was shot by Policeman Anderson at Sixth and Mickle streets yesterday, after the animal had terrorized the neighborhood.

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William Ferguson Obituary - 1894-10-23
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Passed to Eternity's Shores

Camden Courier-Post - October 23, 1894 Age and Youth Falls Before the Grim Reaper's Sickle The funeral of John Haas , aged 55 years, the proprietor of the Junction Hotel, takes place this afternoon from his late residence, Sixth and Bridge avenue .

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Grade Crossing Victims — George S. Jordon, 1051 Diamond Street — Philadelphia Inquirer, October 24, 1891
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Grade Crossing Victims

Albert Beck and George S. Jordon of 1051 Diamond Street were struck and killed by the West Jersey Railroad's Bridgeton accommodation train at the Van Hook Street grade crossing in Camden.

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New Buildings Going Up
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New Buildings Going Up

Camden Daily Courier - November 15, 1890 Many Houses Now Being Erected Camden builders do not seem to be deterred by the fear of financial panic or an idea that the McKinley bill presages disaster in business.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 1887 — A Night Alarm, page 1: Camden & Philadelphia Soap Works fire
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A Night Alarm

A fire at a Sixth and Mill Street stable spread to the Philadelphia and Camden Soap Works at 511–513 Main Street and damaged dwellings on Branch Street, causing $16,000 in losses on the night of April 13, 1887.

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Petition

Residents and property owners of Camden's Fourth and Sixth wards petition City Council for an under-drainage culvert running from the Line Street culvert at Broadway out to Sixth Street and north to Sixth and Royden. Arthur Stanley, then of 929 Newton Avenue, signed among the petitioners.

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