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Cemetery Chapels Gain in Use for Weddings, Camden Courier-Post, June 16, 1932
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Cemetery Chapels Gain in Use for Weddings

A June 1932 Camden Courier-Post report on a Camden Lions Club meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman, where speaker James O'Neill of Lakeview Memorial Park described the growing use of cemetery chapels for weddings. The club also announced the election of Dr. Thomas Lewis, I. D. Gindhart, Max Reihmann, and Harold Leach as directors.

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Courier-Post clipping, June 8, 1932: Miss Kathryn McNulty bride in wedding here
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Miss Kathryn McNulty Bride in Wedding Here

Miss Kathryn Cecelia McNulty, daughter of Martin A. McNulty of 307 Kaighn Avenue, married Robert O'Keefe at the Church of the Sacred Heart, with a breakfast for the immediate families at the Hotel Walt Whitman before a motor trip to Canada.

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Baird to Address Hebrew League

David Baird, Jr., Republican nominee for governor, will make his final appearance in the current election campaign Monday night, in his "own home town," when he will address a monster rally at the Hebrew Republican League, at the Talmud Torah, 621 Kaighn Avenue.

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16 Beauties to Vie for Honors Tonight

Shrine Club to Select Contest Winner at Convention Hall Show Sixteen South Jersey girls are competing in a popularity contest which closes tonight at the first annual professional show and dance of Camden Shrine Club in Convention Hall .

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Camden Courier-Post feature on William L. Hurley, Camden furniture merchant, April 23, 1928
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Hurley Based Success in Life and in Business on Square Deal to All

Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928: Ben Courter's profile of William L. Hurley, who built a small store at Fifth and Pine streets into the Gately & Hurley store at Broadway and Pine streets on a policy of square dealing, and who championed the Camden bridge and the extension of Broadway.

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Camden Courier-Post clipping, April 5, 1928: committee to arrange a banquet for Carl Kisselman
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Committee to Arrange Banquet for Kisselman

The Carl Kisselman dinner committee was to meet at the offices of Albert S. Woodruff, 328 Market Street, to complete plans for a testimonial banquet honoring the newly appointed second assistant city solicitor. The dinner was set for Hotel Walt Whitman on April 24, with former Senator Woodruff as toastmaster and Lewis Liberman as committee chairman.

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Newspaper clipping: Howard Dudley Named to Head Rotary Club
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Howard Dudley Named to Head Rotary Club

Howard J. Dudley, Broadway furniture merchant, was nominated unopposed as president of the Camden Rotary Club at a meeting in the Hotel Walt Whitman, the Camden Courier-Post reported April 4, 1928, along with the club's other nominations for officers, directors and conference delegates.

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Newspaper clipping: Reesman denies light fund shift, Camden Courier-Post, January 27, 1928
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Reesman Denies Light Fund Shift

Commissioner Clay W. Reesman denied Harry P. Pelouze's charge that leftover lighting funds were shifted to another department, saying the city simply lacked money for the extra lights the Broadway Business Men's Association wanted.

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Stone Discounts Fumigation Value

Health Head Says It Gives False Sense of Security Fumigation as a method of preventing disease was discounted by Dr. Arthur L. Stone , city health director, in talk yesterday before the Y's men's Club at the Hotel Walt Whitman .

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Rotary Club Told of Industrial Drive

C. of C. Secretary Outlines Plan to Make Comprehensive Survey An industrial campaign for the purpose of inducing new business industries to locate in Camden will be part of the program of the Chamber of Commerce for this year, Loyal D. Odhner, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, told members of the Rotary Club at a luncheon today in the Hotel Walt Whitman .

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Newspaper article 'Phila. Rabbi Urges Freedom for Youth', Camden Courier-Post, January 9, 1928
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Phila. Rabbi Urges Freedom for Youth

Rabbi William H. Fineshriber of Philadelphia told Camden Lodge, No. 915, Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, that freedom for youth makes for better citizenship than repression, at the installation of Meyer L. Sakin as lodge president in the Hotel Walt Whitman.

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