Streets
Viola Street
Viola Street runs west from Ancona Street across Broadway to the railroad tracks and Interstate 676. City directory records, newspaper clippings, and photos from 1891 to 1983.
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Fillmore Street
People
Robert Gess
Robert Gess (1887-1950) was born in Pennsylvania and worked for many years at the Howland Croft Sons & Co. textile mill at Broadway and Jefferson Street in Camden, becoming a foreman there about 1918. He suffered a fatal heart attack at the plant on June 28, 1950.
Manufacturing and Hardware
Sitley and Son
Sitley & Son was established by Arthur M. Sitley and his son, Frank Budd Sitley. Originally farmers, the Sitleys recognized a business opportunity in Camden and began selling grain, feed, and farm equipment.
Streets
Boyer Street
Boyer Street, also known as Boyer Court, was a half-block dead-end street running east from Nelson Street in South Camden. Eight brick homes on the north side were built in the early 1890s and demolished after World War II for industrial development.
Streets
Jefferson Avenue
Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.
Breweries and Coffeeshops
Camden Beer
The Camden County Beverage Co., Fillmore & Bulson Streets, Camden, New Jersey Camden's brewery at Fillmore and Bulson Street s was built in 1904 by Joseph Baumgartner.
Streets
Baring Street
Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.
People
George Ackerle
GEORGE ACKERLE was born December 14, 1920 in New Jersey. He was one of at least seven children born to Paul F. and Anna Ackerle. The Ackerles lived in Deptford NJ through at least April of 1930.
News Articles
‘Stocking’ Bandit Hunt Underway
Police searched for two stocking-masked bandits who held up the night clerk of the Oasis Motel on Admiral Wilson Boulevard and fled toward Park Boulevard; Steve's Tavern on Fillmore Street was also burglarized.
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2 Men Given 6 Months on Theft Counts
Municipal Judge Marino gave six-month jail sentences to two men for theft of an automobile battery and $5 worth of gasoline; Sgt. Earl Wright said one was arrested taking the gas.
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Marriage Licenses
Eight Camden marriage licenses published April 2, 1952, including Otto Souak of Clementon and Veneria Cinelli of 344 Dudley Street.
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Beverage Firm Worker Fatally Stricken
Camden Courier Post - May 3, 1949 John A. Herrmann, 52, Bell avenue, Barrington, and employe [sic] of the Camden County Beverage Co., Fillmore and Bulson streets, collapsed and died yesterday while cleaning a vat.
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Hospital Cases
West Jersey hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 25, 1938, including Herman Detopky, 20, of 459 Atlantic Avenue (injured finger) and Patsy Ralo, 55, of 1718 Fillmore Street (lacerated hand).
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3 Held in Robbery of 2 Beer Hunters
George Rumble, Al Dubowski and Frank Marcone were arrested at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue after Bernard Franz of Philadelphia accused them of robbing him and Robert Tully under pretense of showing them where to get beer.
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3 Youths Held as Blaze Razes Grain Plant of Sitley and Son
Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today destroyed the warehouse of Sitley & Son , wholesale hardware, roofing material and grain dealers at Sixth and Bulson streets.
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Slayer Is Given Long Prison Term
Michael Czulak of 414 Viola Street, who pleaded non vult to killing Peter Lukasiewicz in a fight at a christening party at 1911 Fillmore Street, was sentenced by Justice Katzenbach to ten to thirty years at hard labor.
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Compensation Award
According to a ruling made by Referee Goas, of the Employers' Compensatian Bureau in Camden, the Poth Brewing Company must pay Christran Heitman, of 1631 Fillmore street , $10 a week for forty-two weeks for injuries received when he was struck in the eye with a hoop while he was riveting a keg.
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Fireman Joseph Ware Dies
Camden Fireman Joseph Ware, son of Policeman James Ware and a member of No. 1 Engine Company, died at his home on Fillmore Street after an automobile crank slipped and struck him in the face on June 6.
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Poths Buy Camden Brewery
In March 1910 J. C. B. Morley sold the Camden City Brewery at Sixth and Fillmore Streets to the F. A. Poth & Sons Brewing Co. of Philadelphia for about $500,000.
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Arthur M. Sitley Stricken in Camden
Dr. Francis J. Bickers, of 1701 Fillmore Street, saw an elderly man fall from a stroke of apoplexy on Broadway near Vanhook Street; the man was recognized as Arthur M. Sitley, of 506 Broadway, founder of Sitley & Son's grain elevator at Sixth and Chelten Avenue, and his condition was critical.
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Drink-Sellers Arraigned
Camden saloon keepers charged with Sunday liquor selling, among them James Croker of Fourth and Jasper streets and John Murschell of Broadway and Jefferson street, pleaded not guilty before Mayor Westcott; Chief of Police Dodd was the complainant in all the cases.
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Camden
A column of Camden local items from the Philadelphia Inquirer of April 28, 1895, including Captain Andrew B. Frazee's retirement from the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company and the O'Brien-Longworth wedding.
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The Logue Assault
The Quarter Sessions Court trial of John F. Stratton and Henry Mellon, charged with the May 6, 1888 knife and blackjack attack on Joseph Logue near Starr's crossing, Tenth and Line streets, with testimony from Logue, Miss Sarah Lewine, Christopher Smith, Dr. Henry Jarrett, Charles R. Locke and Knight Haines.