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Four Prostrations in Camden
Four Camden residents suffered heat prostration on June 23, 1910, including Anna Connor, 17, of 209 Byron Street, treated at Cooper Hospital.
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Fall on Ice Breaks Leg
L. Headley, 50, of 604 Federal Street, Camden, was taken to Cooper Hospital with a broken leg after a fall on the ice.
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Camden News Notes — January 30, 1909
Edward Dyer, 22, of 205 Byron Street, was seriously injured after falling twenty feet into the hold of a boat at Mathis' shipyard.
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Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire
A mixing-tank explosion touched off a disastrous fire that swept the N.Z. Graves Paint and Varnish Company plant on Twelfth Street, Camden, between Linden and Federal streets — destroying more than half a million dollars in property, injuring three, and driving families from their homes. (Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908.)
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Camden, Now Eighty Years Old, Is Proud of Its Wonderful Growth
City on Saint Valentine's Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning "Slow Town" Across the River 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 News Notes — March 11, 1907
Camden briefs for March 11, 1907, including Captain Stanley's raid on an alleged speak-easy kept by James La Moeno at 812 South Third Street, where beer, wine and whiskey were confiscated.
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East Side Police Take the Census
Camden Post-Telegram, November 3, 1906: East Side police begin taking the census of the Eleventh and Twelfth wards; the funeral of Albert Fish from Joseph Fisher's home at 3024 Federal Street; and Mrs. Lizzie Horner of Twenty-third and Carman streets is injured in a fall down stairs.
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East Side Notes
Local notes from East Camden: Nicholas Donahue elected to Board of Trade; Harry Lake ill at home; Ezra Wallace of 38th Street and Westfield Avenue confined to home with sickness; James N. Lloyd of 2831 Concord Avenue seriously ill with pneumonia.
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Doings in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 13, 1906 ** The flag poles on all the fire houses need painting. ** City Hall . Cooper. Pyne Point and Forest Kill parks were thronged yesterday. ** Open-air services were held by several of the churches yesterday.
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Police Seek Writer of Note Found on Suicide
William Cooper of 27 North Twenty-first Street died of laudanum poisoning at Cooper Hospital; police sought the writer of a mysterious note found in his pocket after he sat unnoticed for hours in a Federal Street saloon.
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New Faces Behind Bars
The Camden Excise Commission granted a retail liquor license to Andrew Miller at 1423 South Tenth Street and approved several other license transfers.
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Camden News Notes
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden items from March 1, 1906: a railroad power house going up at Seventh and Vanhook streets, bids for a lift bridge over Cooper Creek, and six-year-old Emma Jones of 1066 Louis Street badly burned in a bonfire.
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East Camden Youth Missing
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob O. Grear of Thirty-third and Federal streets, East Camden, reported their 19-year-old son Howard missing for ten days, fearing he had met with an accident.
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Daring Work of Footpads
Joseph Welsh of Sparta, Virginia was robbed of $15 and a gold watch by two footpads near the ruins of the Fries-Breslin carpet mill on Ferry Avenue.
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Brave Fire-Fighter Heads New Company
Edgar Bolton of the Second ward, a member of the company at Fifth and Arch streets, was elected foreman of Camden's new fire company, whose fire house on Federal street above Twelfth was nearing completion.
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News and Incidents of a Day in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle street s, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets , had her clothing cut in strips.
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Camden News Notes — February 12, 1905
Sergeant Schregler is sent to Washington, D.C. to retrieve 15-year-old Charlotte "Lottie" Helm; Driver Peter Carter of Engine Company No. 1 is injured when his engine strikes a trolley car at Broadway and Federal Street.
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More Firemen for Camden
The Fire Committee of Camden City Council appointed a slate of new firemen — among them Martin Carrigan — ahead of the completion of the new fire house at Twelfth and Federal streets.
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Camden News Notes — September 2, 1904
A Philadelphia Inquirer "Camden News Notes" column of September 2, 1904, reporting the deaths of Annie Smith of 308 Mechanic Street and Daniel Bromley of 1500 South Tenth Street, and the injury of 12-year-old Benjamin Eppinger of 1159 Federal Street, jolted from a brewery wagon at Twelfth and Federal Streets.
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Craig—Fisher
Elsie M. Fisher and William B. Craig of East Camden were married in June 1904 at the bride's home, 3024 Federal Street, by the Rev. George T. Harris of the Asbury M. E. Church.
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Negro Brutally Beats East Camden Woman
Jennie A. Craig of 206 South Thirty-second Street was attacked on Federal Street in January 1904, knocked down a six-foot embankment and choked; her assailant fled when her screams continued, and her brother's search led police to a clue.
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Armed Desperadoes Swoop Down on East Camden
Five armed desperadoes hold up a bridge tender, blow up a safe at the Pavonia station, and battle police across East Camden before escaping.
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Trolley Hit Detective Cherry
County Detective John Cherry was struck by a westbound Haddonfield trolley car while crossing Federal street at Broadway in Camden; hurled about a dozen feet, he escaped with a few bruises and torn clothing.
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Andrew Rabeau Dead
Andrew Rabeau, 71, a longtime Second Street and Bridge Avenue cigar dealer, former Third ward councilman and retired Pennsylvania Railroad foreman of car inspectors, died suddenly of paralysis at the home of jeweler F. W. Fuller, 217 Federal Street.
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Many Persons Hurt While Celebrating
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.
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Wright Cox Held for Assault
Wright Cox, an ex-fireman of Camden, was held in $600 bail by Justice Schmitz on a charge of assaulting suspended fireman Robert Colkett near Second and Federal streets, after an argument over the Third ward primary election results.
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Col. Felton Committed Suicide in His Office
Col. George G. Felton, real estate dealer and former City Treasurer, was found dead of gas in his office in the Felton building at Second and Federal streets. The same Camden Daily Courier column reported the sudden death of Walter C. Fish, florist of Broadway and Spruce streets.
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Bad Gas and Ugly Poles Stir Camden Citizens
Camden householders and businessmen complained of poor gas and electric service at high prices, and of the Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company's pole-raising. Philip Burch drove off a pole gang with hot and cold water, and property owners prepared to demand revocation of the company's franchise before City Council.
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Camden Lodge of Elks Has Magnificent Home
Camden Lodge, No. 293, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is established in its new home at Broadway and Federal Street, valued with its furnishings at $50,000. The Philadelphia Inquirer describes the club house and lists the lodge's officers.
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Boys Playing With Matches Started a Big Fire
Boys playing with matches behind the Market House on Federal Street started the biggest fire in Camden's history on May 13, 1900, destroying nearly half a hundred buildings along Federal Street and Taylor Avenue before four Philadelphia engine companies helped master it.
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Abbatto Hanged in Camden Jail
Francisco Abbatto, convicted of the murder of Genaro DeFeo near Blue Anchor, was hanged at the Camden County Jail on May 10, 1900, the first hanging conducted by Sheriff John Wesley Sell; the gallows stood in the loft at the Broadway and Federal streets corner of the building.
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Want Liquor Men Put on the Rack
The Camden County Law and Order League renewed its complaints against forty-eight liquor sellers who escaped indictment, hinting that political pull had saved them, and gave the grand jury a list of accused saloonkeepers including several on Kaighn avenue.
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Camden Lodge of Elks to Move
The Fredericks property at Broadway and Federal streets was being fitted up for Camden Lodge of Elks, with the work expected to be completed in about a month.
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East Side Jottings
East Side police and court items from Camden, including the robbery of Charles Eckler of Polk Avenue on the North Cramer Hill ferryboat and the placing of new Gamewell police boxes in the East side.
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Cross Cooper's Creek
Sad and Sudden Death of Mrs. Beulah Abbott Last Evening This community will be shocked to know of the death of Mrs. Beulah Abbott, wife of Benjamin Abbott, and mother of Town Clerk William S. Abbott and Chief Robert Abbott .
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In Police Dragnet
Successful Raid on an Alleged Pool Room in Camden Seven Men Captured Keefer, Who Says He Spent His Employers' Money in the Place, Identifies the Prisoners The Camden police yesterday raided the alleged poolroom at 25 South Third street, where Walter H. Keefer, former manager of the Merchantville Light and Power Company, claims he lost $254, belonging to his employers.
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Camden Notes
The Philadelphia Inquirer of January 22, 1899, reported in its Camden Notes column that Miss Emma Foulon, of 324 Federal Street, entertained a matinee euchre party on Wednesday afternoon.
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Over in Camden
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of December 22, 1898: an incorporation, a missing boy, a burglary, a man charged with stealing overcoats and captured at the Federal Street Ferry, and city officials and policemen down with the grip.
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Bent on Murder
Former Pittsburg second baseman William Eagan, drunk and armed with a revolver, fired twice at his wife at her West Street home in Camden before Policemen Schregler and Pedricks disarmed and overpowered him.
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Death Lurked on a Camden Street
Harry J. Schaefer, a 22-year-old silk spinner, was shocked to death by a broken live wire on Tenth street above Market in Camden while spectators were afraid to free him.
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Shot Her Husband
Michael McCusker, superintendent of the Union News Company at the Federal street station, was shot in the abdomen at his home, 206 Benson street, and died at Cooper Hospital; his wife Florence McCusker was charged with his murder.
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Taylor Shot to Kill Him
Robert Taylor shoots Sumner Derrickson in a gambling dispute on Baxter Street; Derrickson taken to Cooper Hospital, Taylor arrested at the Federal Street ferry.
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Alleged Threat to Shoot
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 18, 1897 William Lore was arrested in Stockton late Saturday night, charged with threatening to Shoot Israel Adams , proprietor of a saloon on Federal street .
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Knell of Doom for Cobbles in Camden
City Counsel Morgan found that a law allows Camden to issue $200,000 in bonds for repaving, and petitions circulated to lay sheet asphalt on Market, Federal, Kaighn, Broadway, Haddon and Cooper streets, with the Camden and Suburban Railway sharing the cost.
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Death of Mrs. Maria Beck
Mrs. Maria Beck, wife of Andreas Beck of 114 Federal Street, died of congestion of the brain in May 1897; a prominent member of the First M. E. Church, her funeral services were to be held there on Monday.
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For Rent
Real Estate Investment Co. advertises 124 Clay Street for rent — 4 rooms at $6.00 per month — along with other Camden properties. Camden Daily Telegram, March 11, 1897.
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Over in Camden
The Philadelphia Inquirer of January 22, 1897, reported that Miss Carrie Foulon was married to William George Maguire by Rev. William Dayton Roberts at her parents' home, 524 Federal Street, Camden.
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New Year's Day Over in Camden
Camden's mummers turned out in greater force than ever on New Year's Day 1897, as the George S. Dilmore, Fireside and J. H. Trainer New Year's associations paraded and crossed to Philadelphia to compete for prizes, while the Y.M.C.A. on Federal street kept open house and "Long John" Gallagher fed the poor of South Camden.
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Malt License
An 1897 Camden Post-Telegram report of the malt-drink licenses granted and refused by the Court of Common Pleas, including Henry Garren at 27 South 4th Street.
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Camden's Police Shake-Up
The Philadelphia Inquirer of December 8, 1896, reported that Camden police Lieutenant Pettit explained his failure to execute a warrant against gamblers at 503 Federal Street, an account Chief Dodd denied.