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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.
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George W. Frost
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Penn Street
Penn Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden. It first appears in the 1867 city directory, and once traversed a significant part of the city.
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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.
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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.
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Koerner Made Police Chief; Carroll, Mattison Promoted
Camden Courier-Post - November 29, 1949 Johnson , Garrity Move As Aaron Shifts Officers Capt. Gustav Koerner , youngest of six men holding that rank in the department, today was named Camden police chief.
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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.
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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."
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.