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Retiring Fire Chief Edward R. MacDowell handed over command of Camden's fire department to Acting Chief Edward V. Michalak, ending 38 years and nine months of city fire service that began as a wagon driver for Engine Co. No. 3, 1813 Broadway.
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.
Camden Courier-Post - May 16, 1964 C. Hobart Corson , 62, of 117 N. 23rd st. , former president of the Ninth Ward Republican Club , was found dead yesterday on the second floor of the club's headquarters on Broadway near Royden st .
A Camden fire pumper from Engine 1, answering a mattress fire, collided with an automobile and crashed through the front of an insurance office at Broadway and Pine Streets, injuring firemen, a passerby and the car's occupants and leaving the building condemned.
Philadelphia Inquirer photograph of a Camden fire engine supporting a building at Broadway and Pine Streets after the pumper rammed the office front following a collision with an automobile, cracking the walls and leaving the building in danger of collapse.
A fire engine plunged into a building at Pine Street and Broadway after colliding with a car; six persons were injured, one seriously, when the engine ran out of control after the crash.
A Camden fire engine driven by Fireman Isaac Muns collided with a car at Broadway and Pine Street and plunged into an insurance office on the corner, injuring two firemen, a woman waiting for a bus, the car's two occupants and a city worker shoring up the building.
Charles N. Jester of 534 Woodland Avenue, a retired boilermaker and member of Boilermakers Local 803, died after a long illness. Services were set for the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, with burial in Locustwood Memorial Park.
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.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of June 10, 1960, for the TelePrompTer closed-circuit telecast of the Ingemar Johansson vs. Floyd Patterson world heavyweight championship return bout at The Ice House, Brace & Berlin Roads, Delaware Township, with tickets on sale at the Trailways Bus Station, 217 N. Broadway, Camden, among other outlets.
Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society - February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street , Camden, New Jersey.
John G. Dalton, 68, of 509 Fairview Street, a retired construction worker and native of Newfoundland who had lived in Camden 45 years, died at his home; a requiem Mass was set for the Sacred Heart Church.
Fire Capt. Leonard Garbrecht of Engine Company 3 was hospitalized with head injuries when the door of a dry cleaning tumbler blew off during a fire at the Mechanics Overall Service plant, 2201 S. 8th Street. Camden Courier-Post, December 23, 1958.
Mrs. Stella M. Beach, 47, of 702 Carman Street, a lifelong Camden resident and charter member of Camden Aerie 065, FOE Auxiliary, died at her home in September 1958; services were held at the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway.
A June 1958 legal notice that Camden Post 980, Inc. V.F.W. applied to renew its club liquor license at 61 South 6th Street, listing Commander Frank Luczkiewicz of 704 Carman Street and the post's other officers and trustees.
The Camden Courier-Post death notice of February 14, 1958 for Thomas Hyde, 55, of 812 Howard Street, a life-long Camden resident who died in Cooper Hospital, survived by a brother, Richard, and a sister, Miss Ida Hyde.
Burglars broke into three Camden businesses, including the 705 Bar on Chestnut Street and Paramount Billiards at 16 S. Broadway, and three Pennsauken homes over a December 1957 weekend, netting nearly $600; two men were held for breaking into Martini's Service Station at 4th and Main streets.
Angelo Rago, 68, a retired Philadelphia Navy Yard employee and World War I veteran, died at his home at 1707 South 4th Street in December 1957.
County detectives arrested a Pennsauken husband and wife, Theresa and Frank J. Tiole, for allegedly taking horse bets and numbers plays in the South Camden cigar store they operated on Broadway near Emerald street.
A gunman held up the Style Shop at 703 Broadway and escaped with about $40 after binding and gagging clerk Mrs. Elsie Bobkowski of 754 Sylvan Street in September 1957.
A June 1957 legal notice that the Ninth Ward Republican Association applied for a club liquor license at 536 Broadway, listing President Hobart Corson, Vice President John K. Voll and the association's other officers and directors, including Lester Beach of 702 Carman Street.
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.
Vincent DiPatri, 69, who lived 40 years at 1809 South 4th Street and retired as a PRSL maintenance-of-way worker after 36 years, died in March 1957.
Obituary for Mrs. Ada Dawson, 81, born in England, who died in Cooper Hospital in March 1957 after living seven years with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Butch, at 345 Winslow Street; services at the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway.
Obituary of John Melfi Sr., 74, of 24 Ablett Village, Camden — born in Italy, Camden resident for 42 years, maintenance man for Eavenson and Levering. Camden Courier-Post, December 11, 1956.
Gerald M. Miller, 24, of the 2100 block of Berwick Street was held in $250 bail on charges of passing a red traffic light, reckless driving and drunken driving after Patrolman John E. Taylor stopped him at Carman Street.
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.
Municipal Judge Benjamin Dzick discharged Nicholas Persiano and Anthony Mona after Persiano recanted his charges over a crash into the Dial Shoe Store window at 1152 Broadway; police had called the case a "quarrel among thieves."
Nuisance Eliminated, They Say, Praising Action by Police Camden City's police crackdown on the illegal operations of pretzel vendors and other type peddlers in the mid-city business area was hailed today by the merchants.
Death notice for James E. Murphy, 88, of 3010 Fenwick Road, Fairview, who died January 2, 1955; funeral from the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway, Camden. Camden Courier-Post, January 4, 1955.
Death notice for Charles B. Lamon of 1233 South 4th Street, Camden, who died February 1, 1954; husband of the late Anna Davis Lamon (nee Hagerty).
Angel M. Rodriguez, 35, of 300 Penn St., and Fernando Reyes, 52, of 708 Carman St., were beaten in January 1954; Rodriguez's car was stolen and Reyes said he was robbed of $150.
Camden Courier-Post, December 26, 1953: Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie remains in jail on $50,000 bail after admitting his "confession" to accidentally killing his son was invented to win Catholic burial rites for the youth.
By Ronald G. Van Tine Restrictions on nightlong parking on principal streets in the business district will be tried out early next year as a major step in a campaign to make Camden a cleaner city in which to live and work.
A car driven by 19-year-old Leonard Chasey collided with Engine Co. No. 2 at Broadway and Stevens Street, mounted the sidewalk and broke two windows of Rolans Clothing Store; the engine was returning from a false alarm at 516 Pine Street.
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.
Camden Courier-Post, May 7, 1952: two youths, 18 and 14, were arrested after an attempted break-in at a candy store at Sixth and Royden streets and confessed to robbing Schneider's Bakery on Broadway.
Mayor Brunner cut a ribbon to open the remodeled Midway Theatre at Broadway and Carman Street as Camden's newest first-run movie house, with the first showing of "The Wild Blue Yonder." The Midway is operated by Samuel and Joseph Varbalow's Savar Theatre Corp.
Mayor Brunner called a July 1950 conference to coordinate city departments in clearing high grass and weeds from Camden — a campaign during which crews uncovered and destroyed more than 200 wild marijuana plants on a city lot at Chelton Avenue and Arlington Street.
Robert Gess, 63, foreman at Howland Croft Sons & Co. for 32 years, died at the plant on Broadway and Jefferson Street in June 1950.
Obituary for Thomas Scarduzio Sr., who died in his home at 419 Winslow Street, his address for 35 years; a retired engineman in the round house of the old Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Mass at Sacred Heart R.C. Church, burial in Calvary cemetery.
A Camden Beer advertisement in which Charlie Kuski and Alex Bashuck, proprietor and bartender of the Hi-Step Hotel at 2366 Broadway, credit the beer's pure, clean water.
John W. Kmicic, 56, a Pennsylvania Railroad machinist, was fatally injured when a beer keg exploded during a Christmas party at the Ninth Ward Republican club, 536 Broadway, on December 22, 1949.
A 60-year-old South Camden woman, Mrs. Lillian Heard, suffered a broken left arm battling two youths who stole her purse on Broadway near Liberty street while she was on her way to church.
Joseph Wright, 69, of 1716 Ferry Avenue, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at Broadway and Van Hook Street, one of three hit-run accidents in Camden early that day that also injured a Philadelphian and damaged a parked car.
Policeman James McTaggart, 54, of 3135 Waldorf Avenue, a World War I veteran appointed to the Camden police force in 1927, died in West Jersey Hospital. He was a brother of the late Policeman John McTaggart, who worked a beat on Broadway from Pine Street to Kaighn Avenue.
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.
A three-alarm fire swept the S. S. Kresge building at 29-33 Broadway, threatening Camden's central business district; five firemen were burned, and a second blaze at the Camden Foundry Co., Front and Elm streets, called out the city's remaining fire companies.
Funeral services for Camden City Detective Edwin T. Mills, who died at Atlantic Shores hospital, Somers Point, were set for his residence at 240 Eutaw Avenue. Mills had been injured in a March 1943 collision of a police radio car and a bus at Broadway and Mickle Street.
Page 21 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Neil Deighan's at Airport Circle and N. Clements auto parts on Howell Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how the Church of the Immaculate Conception was built at Broadway and Market Streets in 1864.