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Fletcher Stanley Bleakly
Fletcher Stanley Bleakly, known as F. Stanley Bleakly, or just Stanley Bleakly, was the son of John W. F. Bleakly and his wife Fannie.
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Edwin G. C. Bleakly
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City Farm Gardens
This post is an excerpt from the Book History of Camden County in the Great War , published in 1917-1918 Another weapon to defeat the enemy was the establishment of City Farm Gardens in the country.
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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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Charles S. Boyer
Charles Shimer Boyer, born in Pennsylvania in 1869 to Benjamin Franklin Boyer and Alabama Shimer Boyer, is most notably recognized as the inaugural President of the Camden County Historical Society.
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Winfield S. Price
Winfield Scott Price enlisted in the New Jersey National Guard in 1892, starting as a private and eventually retiring as a Major General in June 1939.
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Firmin F. Michel
FIRMIN F. MICHEL was born in New Jersey around 1900. He married his wife, Gertrude, about 1927. At the time of the 1930 Census, Mr. and Mrs. Michel were renting at 518 Essex Street in Gloucester City NJ.
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Camden's Chamber of Commerce
The Camden Chamber of Commerce is the clearing house of civic activities. The offices are in the Hotel Walt Whitman Annex on Cooper Street near Broadway . It is supported by the business, professional and civic interests of Camden.
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Merchants Trust Company
Merchants Trust Company, a Camden bank organized in 1911 at 18 Broadway that was later absorbed into Broadway Merchants Trust and closed after 1930.
News Articles
Diamond in Dutch - So Is City Over Bill for Treating Horse
Camden Courier-Post - August 31, 1936 Question—Can Municipal Employe Collect for Coming to Aid of Fellow 'Worker'? Then, Too, Is Animal Worth Fee of $3? By Charles L. Humes Diamond, Camden's famous white cemetery horse , has eye trouble.
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Question of Bar in City Hall Put up to Commission
Camden Courier-Post - August 12, 1936 Veterans Offered Twelfth Floor, Want to Take Liquor Along BLEAKLY OPPOSES MOVE To drink or not to drink (over a bar) in City Hall — that is the question.
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Hartmann Names Dr. Baker Public Works Staff Physician
Civil Service Commission Asked to Approve $1500 Job ACTION DECLARED ECONOMY MOVE The State Civil Service Commission has been requested to authorize appointment of a staff physician for the Camden City department of public works at an annual salary of $1500, and Dr. Maurice E. Baker has been named to the post on an ad interim appointment by Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann, Jr. Dr. Baker, a Democrat, was a candidate for city commissioner last May on the New Deal-Non Partisan ticket, which elected Hartmann and Commissioners Mary W. Kobus and George E. Brunner .
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Lippincott Widow Sues for $225,000
Haddon Heights Woman Files Action Against Railroad for Mate's Death Suit for $255,000 was filed in New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday by Mrs. Margaret Lippincott against the Atlantic City Railroad in the death of her husband, Willet Lippincott, of 106 Station Avenue, Haddon Heights, a real estate operator and son of Benjamin A. Lippincott, first mayor of Haddon Heights.
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Changes Ordered in Camden Police
The police committee of Camden City Council directed Solicitor Bleakly to draft an ordinance partially reorganizing the Police Department, reducing the number of captains to one and retiring seven veteran officers on pension.
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War Work Director Named
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 27, 1918 F. Morse Archer , president of the National State Bank , is to direct the Camden drive for the war work fund.
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Shipbuilders Home Building and Loan Association
A number of the officials and employes [sic] of the New York Shipbuiling [sic] Company have organized the Shipbuilders' Home Building and Loan Association by the election of the following officers: President, William J. Bradley ; vice president, Thomas J. Moore; secretary, John M. Kelly [sic] ; treasurer, Central Trust Company ; solicitor, E. G. C. Bleakly .