People
Ott Laxton
Samuel Arthur "Ott" Laxton (1904–1983) was one of Camden's finest semi-pro basketball players, starring with Pavonia, Broadway Cycle, Oaklyn, and a dozen other teams from 1918 through the 1930s.
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David S Rhone
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Leonard E. Oshushek
Camden firefighter who served 32 years from 1941 to 1971, rising to Acting Battalion Chief. Son of Camden firefighter Samuel Oshushek.
People
Clay W. Reesman
Clay Wolf Reesman Jr. (c. 1884–1949) served as Camden City Commissioner (1927–1935) and Camden City Clerk (1936–1949), and chaired the Camden County Republican Committee.
People
Dr. Henry H. Davis
Physician, pharmacist, and Camden's first Medical Inspector; later Health Director and chief school physician who shaped public-school health care in Camden for a generation.
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Argonne Street
Argonne Street, named for the World War I Battle of the Argonne Forest, ran one block between St. Mihiel Street and Memorial Avenue. It was demolished when Campbell Soup acquired the land to build their corporate headquarters.
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Thomas Yorke Smith
Thomas. Yorke Smith, more commonly known as T. Yorke Smith, born around 1873 in New Jersey, entered matrimony with Harriet A. Smith at the age of 21.
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Kossuth Street
Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.
People
George S. Tempest
GEORGE S. TEMPEST was born in Pennsylvania in March of 1869. He lived in Philadelphia virtually his entire life. As a boy, he went to Girard College, a boarding school for poor orphaned and fatherless boys.
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Joseph "Mose" Flannery
Joseph "Mose" Flannery (1902-1928) was a Camden, NJ Eighth Ward political worker and crime figure shot dead outside a Kaighn Avenue saloon in 1928.
Historical Accounts
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.
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Dzick Appointed Judge of Camden Municipal Court
Prosecutor Replaces DiMona; Anthony Lario Is Chosen Benjamin J. Dzick , city prosecutor since 1942, today was named municipal judge of Camdent [sic] by Director of Public Safety George Aaron , replacing Police Court Judge John R. DiMona.
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Polish American Community Hall Opens Tonight
A March 1950 Camden Courier-Post notice of the banquet opening the Polish American Citizens Club's new $130,000 community hall at Warsaw and Lowell Streets, with Congressman Wolverton and Monsignor Strenski as speakers.
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Koerner Made Police Chief; Carroll, Mattison Promoted
Capt. Gustav Koerner, a 26-year veteran of the department, was named Camden police chief by Public Safety Director Aaron and sworn in by County Judge Sheehan. Detective Capt. Edward Carroll was promoted to police inspector and Lieut. Walter Mattison to captain. Camden Courier-Post, November 29, 1949.
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200 at Party Honor Air War Hero Kelly
Air war hero Staff Sgt. William "Bill" Kelly was honored by more than 200 friends and neighbors at the First Ward Republican Club, 47 York Street, March 1944.
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Henry Magin Funeral
Camden Times - August 29, 1941 Funeral services for City Commissioner Henry Magin were held Tuesday, with many officials and colleagues in veteran's and fraternal circles participating.
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Henry Magin Laid to Rest by War Veteran Buddies
Funeral services for Camden City Commissioner Henry Magin were held in August 1941, with trucks of flowers in the funeral cortege and his war veteran comrades among those paying final honors.
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Connie's Athletics Get 1400 Child Rooters from Camden
Some 1400 Thirteenth Ward children boarded buses at Louis Street and Whitman Avenue in July 1941 for Republican committeeman Edward Garrity's annual outing to see the Athletics play the Chicago White Sox at Shibe Park.
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Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack
Camden Chief of Police Arthur Colsey, a 27-year veteran of the department, died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home at 2937 Stevens Street. The Courier-Post traced his career from merchant at Ninth and Market streets and Second Ward councilman to patrolman in 1912 and permanent chief in 1934.
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Is Zat So?
Camden Courier-Post - February 9, 1938 By Gordon Mackay May we not at this time proffer a suggestion to Mayor Brunner , Eddie Kelleher and the other party sachems that should be a sure-fire plan to make Camden county safe for Democracy?
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Vincent Gallaher to Be Named County Soliciter by Freeholders to Replace Keown Tonight
Vincent J. Gallaher, of Collingswood, a Camden attorney and chairman of the Camden County Democratic Committee, will be elected county solicitor at tonight's regular meeting of the coalition-controlled Camden County Board of Freeholders.
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Inquest Set Today in Gambling Death
Jury List Prepared for Coroner's Action in Holdup Fatality The coroner's inquest to decide the cause of death to Angelos Magalas, Greek chef, who was shot during a card game holdup at 725 Penn Street on January 11, will be held today at 10 a. m. Coroner Franklin P. Jackson III, of Collingswood, will conduct the inquest and will select his jury of 12 from a list of 15 persons prepared by the office of County Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando .
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Coroner's Quiz Ordered In Holdup Victim's Death
County Physician David S. Rhone ordered an autopsy and a coroner's inquest into the death of Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot during the January 11 holdup of a Penn street card game. Luigi Tortu, one of three people arrested for questioning, was released.
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2 Girls, Youth Held in Probe of Fatal Card Game Holdup
Luigi Tortu, 21, of 426 Line Street, and two girls, Pearl Wills of Delair and Evelyn Buffa of 810 Florence Street, were held by Camden city and county police after Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot in the January 11, 1938 holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street, died in Cooper Hospital 13 days later.
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Man Shot in Holdup of Card Game Dies
Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1112 Langham Avenue, a chef and father of 13 who was shot when two bandits held up a card game at 725 Penn Street on January 11, 1938, died in Cooper Hospital, and a murder warrant was issued for his assailant.
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Argonne Street, c. 1930s
Late 1930s photographs of Camden Police Department vehicles lined up on Argonne Street in front of Convention Hall, including a group photo with Chief Arthur Colsey and Mayor George Brunner.
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Johnson Gets Ward's Job as Kobus Orders Cop Shakeup
By Charles L. Humes In a shakeup of Camden police officials yesterday afternoon Lieutenant Samuel E. Johnson was named acting chief of detectives by Commissioner Mary W. Kobus , director of public safety.
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Arrest of Six Links Numbers And Fake Cash
Men Nabbed Here Believed to Be Members of Ring A tie-up between a huge counterfeiting ring and a gambling syndicate backing the "numbers" was believed unearthed by Camden police and Federal authorities following the arrest here yesterday of six colored men on charges of attempting to pass bogus money.
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Popeye Turns Back Independent Umps
A Camden Courier-Post report (c. 1929–1935) on the Popeye club's 8–4 win over the Independent Umpires' Association, with George Nicktern pitching in the Rhone Twilight League's annual contest. (No firmer date is determinable from the source.)
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City League Champs of the American Division
A July 1934 Camden Courier-Post photo caption identifying the Popeye club — American Division champions of the Rhone Twilight League — including Ott Laxton and George Nicktern.
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City Won't Rule on Sunday Beer Sales Unless People Demand
Reesman to Decide If Commissioners Offer Resolution Beverage Dispensers Will Discuss Question at Next Meeting 19 Licenses Issued "The Camden City Commission will take no action on the Sunday beer sale question unless the people express a strong desire for Sunday beer." This is the declaration made yesterday by Mayor Roy R. Stewart .
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Sunday Beer Here Is Up to Reesman As Four Rulers Split
Commissioner Says, However, He Awaits Public Sentiment Moore Signs Act, New Fees Fixed Stewart and Bennett Against, Hanna and Rhone For With four members of the city commission deadlocked on the is sue, Commissioner Clay W. Reesman last night appeared to hold in his hands the final decision as to whether Sunday beer sales will be permitted in Camden.
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Frank Truax Dies
Camden Courier-Post - July 1, 1932 POLICE SERGEANT Second District Officer Had Been in Service Since 1917 Police Sergeant Frank Truax of the Second Police District died at last night in Cooper Hospital of a complication of diseases.
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Camden Will Honor Chief Stehr Today
Camden prepared to pay its last respects to Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, whose funeral cortege would leave Schroeder's, 538 Broadway, for Harleigh Cemetery. Several thousand persons viewed the body, and the entire police department marched past it.
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Camden Will Honor Chief Stehr Today
The Camden Morning Post reported that the funeral cortege of Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr would leave Schroeder's Chapel, Broadway and Royden street, for Harleigh Cemetery, after thousands filed past his bier and the entire police department marched past the body.
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Lewis H. Stehr, Chief of Police, Dies Suddenly
Head of Camden Force Succumbs to Heart Disease in Cooper Hospital City Flags Ordered At Half-Staff for Month Body to Lie in State Friday Night; Final Rites at 2 P.M. Saturday Funeral rites for Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr , who died suddenly at 11.30 a.m. yesterday in Cooper Hospital , will be conducted at 2 pm on Saturday.
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Raid Rhone Ordered Costs Barman $100
Bartender Daniel McGettigan was fined $100 after a raid on a Spruce Street saloon ordered by public safety director Dr. David S. Rhone for violating the Sunday-closing order.
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2 Police Officers Made Lieutenants
Sergeants Samuel Johnson and Thomas Cunningham were sworn in as Camden police lieutenants, and reports circulated that five patrolmen — among them Edward Hahn of the third district — would soon be promoted to sergeant.
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Gangster Shot as Racketeers Open War Here
John Doris, brother of the electrocuted Frank Doris, was arrested after Joseph Connors of Gloucester was shot in front of the American Restaurant, 506 Kaighn avenue, near Broadway; a police roundup netted 10 men held as material witnesses.
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John Carroll Honored by Fifth Ward Club
The Fifth Ward Republican Club honored county committeeman John H. Carroll on his recovery from Cooper Hospital, with speeches from Mayor Winfield S. Price and other city officials.
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Reeve Mansion Ordered Razed by City Official
Commissioner Rhone Tells Building Inspector, Fire Marshal to Investigate DILAPIDATED STRUCTURE CALLED DEN OF THIEVES State Street Residents Complain After Robbers Use House as Rendezvous Termed a 'rendezvous of thieves, a haven for spooners and a general nightmare, the deserted and broken down mansion at Third and State Streets , was ordered torn down by Commissioner David S. Rhone , director of public safety.
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13th Ward G.O.P. Club Pays Tribute to Rhone
Camden Courier-Post - January 18, 1928 A meeting which was described today as "a gathering in honor of David S. Rhone , director of public safety," was held last night at the Thirteenth Ward Republican Club , Haddon Avenue and Mechanic Street .
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Boys Find Charred Body in Fire Ruins
A lamp explosion in a barn behind 751 Ferry Avenue killed Michael Errieski; Patrolman Karl Quinton saved a horse and a family from the spreading fire, which gutted Mrs. Jennie Stevenson's home at 1848 Kossuth Street.
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William M'Cauley Expires Suddenly
A Camden Post-Telegram report of January 3, 1917 on sudden deaths: William McCauley of 464 Liberty Street, three-year-old Mary Wopsuke of 1132 Kaighn Avenue, and John Prettyman, 25, of 811 Howard Street, found dead in his father's stable.