Tag: Centennial Mirror
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Camden Kiwanis Club Alert
The Camden Kiwanis Club is a Civic organization with activities centering about certain objectives, some of which are the underprivileged children, the promotion of an intelligent citizenship, the practice of the Golden Rule in business, the fostering of better relations between the employer and the employee, and between the farmer and the city resident. The…
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Meeting the Good Roads Demand Created by Automobiles
South Jersey is noted for its Smoothly Paved Highways and Paving Firm has Supplied Fine Example of Cooperation Automobiles brought about the modern highways of today and no section of the country has responded to the demand for good roads more completely than has South Jersey. The long level stretches of smooth surface roads have…
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A Brief History of the City of Camden
Incorporated in 1828, the progress and possibilities of Camden have far exceeded the expectations of the Founders and Incorporators. The year 1928 witnessed the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Camden as a city. But, the early history of the community dates back to 1631. Camden ante-dates her big neighbor across…
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Grow With Us
By Mayor Winfield S. Price, Director of Public Affairs A CITY grows only as it is made to grow. Camden this year marked the centennial anniversary of its incorporation as a city. One hundred years ago our population was 1143. Today our population is approximately 140,000. Ten years from now the population of Camden should…
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Economy In Keeping With Progressive Growth
By Commissioner T. Yorke Smith, Director of Revenue and Finance A municipal financial structure must be guided with diligence and efficiency, and guarded against extravagance and unreasonable expenditure. These are the principles practiced in the administration of the Department of Revenue and Finance for the citizens of Camden. Individual and corporate interests have an assurance…
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That Sense of Security
By Commissioner David S. Rhone, Director Of Public Safety In one of his first public statements after taking office, President Coolidge gave utterance to the following “A city may be judged by its citizens.” Judged from the standpoint of acts of commission, Camden points to its accomplishments in business, civic and home life to justify…
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Camden Industries
ABATTOIRS ADVERTISING POSTERS ART GLASS ASBESTOS ASPHALT AUTOMOBILES AUTO & TRUCK BODIES AUTO RADIATORS AUTO SPRINGS AUTO TOPS AUTO SUPPLIES AWNINGS BAKERIES BOAT BUILDERS-SHIPS AND YACHTS BOILERS BARRELS BOOKS AND BOOKBINDERS BOTTLERS BOXES BRASS CASTINGS BRICKS BRICK SEWER PIPES BROOMS, WHISK, ETC. BUILDING MATERIALS BURLAP BAGS CANDIES CAP MANUFACTURERS CARBIDE CAKES CARBON BLACK, ETC. CARPET…
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Can’t Go Wrong on Camden
By Commissioner William D. Sayrs, Jr., Director Of Public Works Streets and domestic water supply and sewage systems. Three basic elements in the existence of a modern city. When a community government exerts its utmost powers to provide the highest standards in water, sewage disposal and improved streets, the fundamental steps toward health and progress…
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Making Health with Parks
By Commissioner Clay W. Reesman, Director of Parks and Public Property CAMDEN has passed the stage where the promotion of park spaces and play grounds is listed as a luxury. The city administration realizes that without health there can be no successful effort toward a maximum of happiness and prosperity. Camden offers to all a…
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CAMDEN’S “WE”
A city needs two things location and men.” “Camden has both.” Arthur Brisbane, noted publicist had this to say about Camden after he had studied the city and its potentialities. $2,000,000 BIRTHDAY PRESENT CAMDEN’S GIFT TO ITSELF Centennial Gift is the first unit of a $6,000,000 marine terminal to be constructed as part of the…
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A Stranger Arrives
Appearance of tall, lean man with flowing whiskers created no inkling of Walt Whitman’s identity. Along in the springtime of 1873 there appeared in the streets of Camden a strange, tall, limping man, clad in a somber grey. His general appearance was enhanced by the picturesqueness of his flawing white beard his large white collar…
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INDUSTRIES QUICK TO APPRECIATE CAMDEN’S DESIRABILITIES
City’s Workshops turn out everything from pen points to the Superdreadnaught Battleships A seer once stated that Camden allegedly was a city of possibilities. And then industries started to crop up within the boundaries of the City. The first industry to enter our boundaries came into being when the Browning Brothers established a plant for…
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CAMDEN’S RETAIL STORES HURDLED OBSTACLES TO GAIN FIRST RANK
Proximity of City to Philadelphia was Handicap until Merchants Brought Shops to High Modern Standard. In no branch of business activity has the past ten years of growth and progress been more pronounced than in the Camden retail merchandising field. And by the same token, in no branch was there greater need for revolutionary changes.…
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School System is Source of Pride to City
Camden is proud of its public educational facilities entailing as they do all of the features which go to make up a modern system in keeping with those approved by leading educators of the Nation. With compulsory education laws in effect and efficiently enforced, numbers of pupils in the schools mean but little when efficiency…
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Real Estate Safeguard to Purchasers Board Proves Property Here
The Camden County Real Estate Board is an organization composed or Realtors operating in and around Camden County. Organized March 8, 1916, it was incorporated May 10, 1916, with eight charter members. Its growth has been rapid and continuing until today it numbers 100 active members, 3 junior members and 70 associates. In its short…