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Friends Avenue

804 Cooper Street - Baird Family Home - 1893
Historical Accounts

Old Cooper Street

Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.

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Newspaper clipping headed Mrs. Annie Gross, a funeral notice dated June 13, 1932
News Articles

Mrs. Annie Gross

Funeral notice for Mrs. Annie Gross, 73, wife of Charles Gross of Friends avenue and Penn street, with services at the Schroeder chapel and burial in New Camden Cemetery.

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Manager Is Shot in Second Holdup of Store in Week
News Articles

Manager Is Shot in Second Holdup of Store in Week

Store manager John Cullen was shot and near death after the second holdup of his American Store on Lansdowne Avenue in a week. Mounted Policeman Earl Wright arrested an armed suspect hours later at Third and Penn Streets.

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Newspaper clipping Alarm Chases Robber, Camden Courier-Post, January 31, 1928
News Articles

Alarm Chases Robber

A burglar trying to break into the Elwood Antrim hardware store at 1541 Federal Street was frightened off by a burglar alarm; District Detectives Schlamm and Donnolley arrested a suspect, Walter Gibbs, at Seventeenth and Federal streets.

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