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Ben Courter's June 3, 1932 Camden Courier-Post obituary of Robert "Bob" Turner, 58, proprietor of the Federal Street oyster restaurant his father Fred Turner started in 1886, who helped get Camden's Moose lodge under way.
Ben Courter's January 18, 1932 Camden Courier-Post column recalls D. Cooper Carman, Camden city clerk from 1884 until his death in 1889, and the "young syndicate" of Republicans that sent Maurice A. Rogers to the State Senate and beat back "Billy" Thompson's race-track faction.
A 1930 Camden Courier-Post retrospective reprints a photograph of the Camden Police Department as it appeared in 1898, with every officer in the group identified — among them Edward S. Hyde.
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.
Ben Courter recalls the old one-horse dinkey of the Camden Horse Railroad Company on South Second street, and the night in the '90s when driver "Joe" Hackney and his horse carried a posse of armed Kaighn Point citizens up and down Second street chasing a runaway steer.