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Battle Flags Wave in Triumph O'ver Parade Reviewed by Admiral
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CAMDEN HAILS HER SONS, CONQUERORS, AT VICTORY JUBILEE

The Peace with victory which Camden’s sons along with millions of other soldiers of all the Allied countries helped to bring home was celebrated by a jubilee in Camden yesterday which eclipsed anything that the city across the Delaware has ever attempted in her history.

Marian Ashbridge - 1916-07-19 Slayer's Wife
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Revolver, Smuggling It in Covered By Fruit, Murderer’s Wife Supplied It

Police and county detectives are looking for George E. Thompson, who escaped from the County Jail after murdering one keeper and wounding another.

Trio Accused of Murder, Coursey Firing the Shots
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Boy’s Brutal Murderer Collapses At Hearing

Two men were charged with killing an 18-year-old. The victim volunteered to escort two young ladies home and was shot by the two men when he was returning. The murder was brutal and, initially, the police had no clue where to start the investigation.

Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night. It continued hardly fifteen minutes, but, in that time more havoc was wrought than by any storm that has ever visited that section, even including the locally historic cyclone of 1885.
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North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked

Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night. It continued hardly fifteen minutes, but, in that time more havoc was wrought than by any storm that has ever visited that section, even including the locally historic cyclone of 1885.

Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.
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Camden, Now Eighty Years Old, Is Proud of Its Wonderful Growth

Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.