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George W. Frost

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George Frost

George Frost was the son of Andrew and Christiana Frost, both of whom were born in what is now Germany.

March 11, 2025·3 min read

Penn Street Looking East from 4th Street - 1910

Streets

Penn Street

Penn Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden. First listed in the 1867 city directory, it lost blocks to the expansion of Rutgers University and the building of Route 676.

February 1, 2024·17 min read

Davis S Rhone - 1931

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David S. Rhone

Dr. David Samuel Rhone was born in Pennsylvania on March 5, 1878.

November 2, 2023·3 min read

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George Ellis

George Ellis was a member of the Camden, NJ Police Department who was promoted to Detective on September 26, 1944 by Chief of Police George W. Frost.

May 4, 2023·1 min read

Sepia view down a wide street lined with brick row houses and utility poles, with one person standing on the sidewalk.

Streets

Pine Street

Pine Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets and the only one that intersects Haddon Avenue. The page includes the 1891 Sanborn Map and a view of old row homes east of Broadway.

October 9, 2021·25 min read

Two men shaking hands, one in a suit and glasses, the other in a police uniform and cap

Koerner Made Police Chief; Carroll, Mattison Promoted

Capt. Gustav Koerner, a 26-year veteran of the department, was named Camden police chief by Public Safety Director Aaron and sworn in by County Judge Sheehan. Detective Capt. Edward Carroll was promoted to police inspector and Lieut. Walter Mattison to captain. Camden Courier-Post, November 29, 1949.

November 29, 1949·1 min read

Golden Jubilee Year Book page 76

T. L. Bear

Page 76 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for T. L. Bear, jeweler, at 204 Market St., M. J. Jubanyik, Inc. at 6th and Penn Sts., John W. Kile's Walt Whitman Flower Shop at 625 Cooper Street, Siris Abbatoirs at Broadway and Jackson St., roofer Max Reihmann, Jr., Y&B roofing and siding, Louis E. Schimpf, florist C. Jackel and the Belfi Insurance Agency, with the compliments of Chief of Police George W. Frost.

January 1, 1943·1 min read

Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire, Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942

Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire

The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester at 713 Broadway was destroyed by a two-alarm fire of undetermined origin following an explosion. Eight companies fought the fire for seven hours, and damage was estimated at $100,000.

March 16, 1942·1 min read

Newspaper photo of hundreds of Camden children waving beside a line of buses bound for Shibe Park, July 1941.

Connie's Athletics Get 1400 Child Rooters from Camden

Some 1400 Thirteenth Ward children boarded buses at Louis Street and Whitman Avenue in July 1941 for Republican committeeman Edward Garrity's annual outing to see the Athletics play the Chicago White Sox at Shibe Park.

July 30, 1941·1 min read

KOBUS WARNS COPS TO KEEP CITY CLEAN — Camden Courier-Post, January 8, 1938

Kobus Warns Cops to Keep City Clean

City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus, Camden's director of public safety, warned a dozen police officials — Edward Hahn among them — to keep the city free of vice and gambling or face "serious consequences."

January 8, 1938·1 min read

Police Illness - AI Stock Photo

Illness Causes Shifts for Police Officials

Temporary changes in the police department to offset the absence of Lieutenant George Frost , head of the First District, who is ill, and Lieutenant George Ward , of headquarters, who is away on police business, were announced yesterday by Chief Arthur Colsey .

February 26, 1936·1 min read

Mary W Kobus - 1932-06-02

Police Force Politics Banned Commissioner Kobus Declares

Calls for 100% Efficiency and Promises Square Deal for All in Talk to Commanders; Stresses Fact Colsey is Chief "I want 100% efficient police department and not a political machine.

August 3, 1935·2 min read

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Orlando Assumes Charge of Vice War

Camden Evening Courier - September 17, 1934 Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando today dropped all other duties and took personal charge of the drive to rid Camden city and county of vice.

September 17, 1934·6 min read

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Suspended Jail Sentence is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid

Pleading non vult to charge of operating a "numbers" headquarters raided by the police last July, Dominic Olivette , 28, of 444 Royden street , was fined $100 and given a suspended sentence of six months in criminal court yesterday.

February 2, 1933·1 min read

Suspended Jail Sentence Is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid

Dominic Olivette, 28, of 444 Royden Street, pleaded non vult to operating a numbers headquarters and was fined $100 with a suspended sentence. Herbert Lantry, 35, of 519 Ray Street, received a separate fine.

February 2, 1933·1 min read

Headline 'Del Duca on Trial in House Raid Case', Camden Courier-Post, June 1, 1932.

Del Duca on Trial in House Raid Case

Arthur "Gyp" Del Duca went on trial before Judge Austin H. Swackhamer on a charge of operating a disorderly house at 674 Fairview Street, raided twice in 24 hours the previous June, once by bandits and once by police.

June 1, 1932·2 min read

Courier-Post front page and jump, August 14, 1931: Mayor Orders Cops to Drive All Gangsters From Camden

Mayor Orders Cops to Drive All Gangsters From Camden

After a gang shooting at Ninth and Chestnut streets nearly struck an 8-year-old girl, Mayor Roy R. Stewart ordered police to stop and question suspicious characters and drive gangsters from Camden.

August 14, 1931·4 min read

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.

April 18, 1930·5 min read

Samuel Johnson, promoted to Lieutenant

2 Police Officers Made Lieutenants

Sergeants Samuel Johnson and Thomas Cunningham were sworn in as Camden police lieutenants, and reports circulated that five patrolmen — among them Edward Hahn of the third district — would soon be promoted to sergeant.

April 9, 1930·2 min read

Courier-Post clipping, January 2, 1928, on three Camden men jailed or fined after New Year's celebrations

Overflowing ‘Bowl’ Put 3 Here in Jail

Three Camden men paid for their New Year's celebrating in 1928: one jailed for beating his wife, one fined after motorcycle officer George Frost arrested him outside the Stanley Theatre at Broadway and Market streets, and one jailed for tipping over chairs and tables in a restaurant.

January 2, 1928·2 min read

Philadelphia Inquirer clipping, Home Brew Explodes, 3 in Family Injured, March 19, 1921

Home Brew Explodes, 3 in Family Injured

A home-made still exploded at 411 Liberty Street, Camden, injuring Rudolphe Velke, his wife and 6-year-old daughter Ella, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on March 19, 1921.

March 19, 1921·1 min read