Streets
10th Street
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
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Crawford M. Smith
Streets
Kaighn Avenue
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
Streets
Carman Street
Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
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Klostermans Identified as Numbers Kings by 5 Witnesses
At the second trial of Fred and Joseph Klosterman on 12 lottery counts, five witnesses testified they had worked for the brothers' numbers bank, while five convicted numbers writers, among them Walter Hart of 1245 Thurman Street, were returned from state prison to testify.
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‘Santa’ Pays Fines of Numbers Pawns
Unidentified benefactors paid in scrip the fines of three convicted numbers writers, including Crawford Smith of 702 Carman Street and Arthur Woodridge, two state witnesses whose wavering testimony led to the acquittal of Fred and Joe Klosterman.
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Tenth Arrest Made Here in Numbers Quiz
The arrest of Crawford Smith on numbers-writing charges brought to 10 the number of people apprehended that week in Camden's numbers-racket crackdown, running alongside the investigation into the murder of Detective William T. Feitz Jr.
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Five Candidates Pass Tests for Park Guards
Five candidates passed the Camden Park guard civil service test; Charles D. Phillips of 121 North Twenty-third Street finished first with a score of 77.13.
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Parents Must Pay for Prank of Boys
Theodore and Leon Emerle of 1530 South Tenth Street were caught pulling waterlilies at Forest Hill Park lagoon by guard Crawford Smith; their parents were ordered to pay for the destroyed plants.
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Paper Packing Force Gets More Recruits
Boilermaker Crawford Smith had Policeman Ulie Andrews lock up a drunken namesake, Andy Smith, who put a brick through a front window of his home at 729 Carman Street; Recorder Stackhouse sentenced him to two months at the paper picking plant, and James Davis and James Carter got a month each. Camden Post-Telegram, November 30, 1910.
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Convicted on His Cousin's Complaint
S. Linokoski, a Russian, was tried before a jury in Police Court this noon on a charge of misdemeanor preferred by Annie Nevlin, his cousin, who resides in North Camden.