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Aerial photo of Carman Street, 1961
Streets

Carman Street

Carman Street ran from Broadway through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at South 31st Street, named for William Carman whose home stood at the corner of Broadway and Federal Street until 1902.

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Streets

Erie Street

Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.

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203 Grant Street, June 23, 1939
Streets

Grant Street

Grant Street is a street in Camden, New Jersey, named after Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and 18th President of the United States.

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Police Stock Photo
People

Edwin T. Mills

Edwin Thomas Mills was born on April 13, 1891, in Ossining, New York, to Jacob and Katie Mills. His father worked as a shoemaker.

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News Articles

Committees Named for Tenth Ward Ball

The Tenth Ward Republican Organization Club named committees for its tenth annual ball, held February 28 at Eagle's auditorium on Broadway. Earl Wright served on the program committee.

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3404 Rosedale Avenue - 1934-09-13
News Articles

Tenth Arrest Made Here in Numbers Quiz

The arrest of Crawford Smith on numbers-writing charges brought to 10 the number of people apprehended that week in Camden's numbers-racket crackdown, running alongside the investigation into the murder of Detective William T. Feitz Jr.

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News Articles

Young Man Recovers From Inhaling Gas

Camden Courier-Post - June 29, 1933 Louis Fox, 23, of 2406 Federal Street , whose unsuccessful attempt at suicide landed him in Cooper Hospital suffering from inhaling gas fumes, is out of danger.

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News Articles

Man Held in Threat as Woman Faints

Residents of the 900 block of Howard Street were thrown into turmoil when Charles Bensley, 73, brandished a pistol at his tenant Mrs. Anna Morgan while seeking overdue rent. A bystander from 217 Erie Street helped apprehend him.

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Byron P Cobb - 1933-06-04
News Articles

Held in Robbery of Byron P. Cobb

Beaten Awning Maker Says $47, Not $4700, Was Taken From Pocket Three men accused of kidnapping, beating and robbing Byron P. Cobb , 62, of 427 Benson Street , yesterday were held without bail for the grand jury by Police Judge [Garfield S.] Pancoast after they pleaded not guilty.

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Premo Fioravanti - 1933-06-04
News Articles

Man, Robbed, Left in Road by Kidnappers

Camden Courier-Post - June 5, 1933 Byron P. Cobb , 62, the "Sun Doctor," was kidnapped by three men early yesterday, beaten and robbed of $4700 before, being tossed from a moving automobile in Farnham Park.

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News Articles

'Buck' Sage Held as 'Hit-Runner'

Detainer Lodged Against Sportsman in Shooting of Waterhouse A detainer against Russell "Buck" Sage , held in Gloucester on a hit-run charge, was lodged last night by Camden police, who claim the South Camden sportsman "knows more than he has told" of the shooting of Harry "Gyp" Waterhouse.

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