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Cooper Street

One of Camden's oldest and most storied streets, named after the Cooper family. Covers the full length from the waterfront to the 2000 block, including the Victor Talking Machine Company, Esterbrook Pen Company, Johnson Park, the Hotel Plaza, the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Elks Lodge, and East Camden's other Cooper Street.

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Klosterman Boys Found Guilty In Numbers Case

Camden Brothers Released in Bail Awaiting Sentence They Are Big Shots,' Prosecutor Declares Both Defendants Deny Connection With Raided Saloon Joseph and Fred Klosterman were convicted in Camden Criminal Court yesterday of operating a numbers racket.

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Mysterious Piece of Paper Enlivens Numbers Trial Here

Judge Shay Enjoys Verbal Tilt Between Gotshalk and Walter Keown, But it Fails to Enter Into Evidence A mysterious piece of paper yesterday precipitated a verbal battle between Assistant Prosecutor William C. Gotshalk and Defense Attorney Walter S. Keown upon opening of the trial of Joseph and Fred Klosterman on charges of number writing.

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Mystery Prisoner Tries to End Life

Mugshot of unidentified man, headlined 'Mr. X' 'Mr. X' Tries to Die An amnesia-claiming prisoner known only as "Mr. X" tried to leap from a window while being…

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Murder Motive at G.O.P. Club Splits Sleuths

County Detectives Contend Philadelphia Gangster Was Slain in Quarrel Over Woman Police Claim Hold-up Attempt Caused Fight Deven Charged with Crime, Flannery and Taxi Driver Held Without Bail With city and county authorities definitely divided on the motive and circumstance if the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph "Polack Joe" Deven was arraigned in Camden police court today and held without bail on a murder charge.

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Gangster Shot During Melee In Sixth Ward

Joseph Deven Held On Murder Charge After Death Boxer's Brother; 'Mose' Flannery and 4 others Held as Witnesses; Was Craps Game Says County Police Holdup Attempted City Cops Declare Victim of a shot fired in a melee, the exact cause of which remain undetermined, Joseph Cimini, 31 years old, was killed in the Sixth Ward Republican Club , 908 Broadway .

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