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Sheridan Street
Sheridan Street is a residential street in Camden, NJ named for Civil War General Philip Sheridan. It originally ran from Warsaw Street east to Davis Street, later extended to South 10th Street.
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Jackson Street
People
Chester J. Gdowik
Private First Class Chester J. Gdowik of 947 Jackson Street, Camden, served with the 6th Armored Infantry Battalion, 1st Armored Division. A South Camden native who worked in the machine shop at New York Shipbuilding before his induction, he was killed in action in Italy on May 25, 1944.
People
Arthur C. Batten
Arthur Cuellen Batten (1904–1972), known to his fellow firefighters as Artie, joined the Camden Fire Department on March 4, 1927 and served until his retirement on February 28, 1969, rising to captain of Rescue Company 1 and acting battalion chief. He lived for many years at 1132 North 22nd Street in Cramer Hill and invented the un-patented ring cutter used by the rescue company to remove finger jewelry.
People
Benjamin W. Bonk
Seaman First Class Benjamin Wallace Bonk of Camden, NJ served aboard the submarine USS Escolar (SS-294), lost with all hands in the Yellow Sea in late 1944. He is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery.
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Michael Street
Michael Street is a one block alley-width street in Camden, running south from Jackson Street to Sheridan Street west of Mount Ephraim Avenue, with no buildings carrying Michael Street addresses.
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Holcaine Street
Holcaine Street, also called Holcaine Avenue, is a small one-block street in Camden, New Jersey, running south from Webster Street to 420 Jackson Street. Eight homes stood on it in 1924; four remained as of 2011.
People
James H. O'Brien
James Henry O'Brien was born around 1894. He served as a Yeoman 3rd Class in the United States Navy during World War I and became active in veterans and civic affairs in Camden, NJ, after the war.
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Sycamore Street
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
Banks
Broadway Trust
The Broadway Trust Company, a bank built before World War I at 938-944 Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, operated until shortly after the 1929 crash.
Fire Department
Fire at 1227 North 28th Street
Camden Fire Department response to a fire at 1227 North 28th Street in Cramer Hill on September 19, 2011.
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Signal Award Presented to Police Hero
Patrolman Peter Yecco received the Camden Police Department's Distinguished Service Award for a Delaware River rescue; among 16 officers commended was Sergeant Earl Wright.
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Notice of Application
Legal notice that Van Hook Tavern applied for a plenary retail consumption license for 575 Van Hook Street, naming officers Tadeusz and Helen Kanigowski of 1189 Whitman Avenue and Stanley Milewski. Camden Courier-Post, June 20, 1959.
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Seven Violate Trucker Rule On Boulevard
Four truck drivers were fined in Camden Municipal Court for failing to keep right on Admiral Wilson Boulevard, three forfeited security, and two Camden men, one of 20th Street near Pierce Avenue, were fined for drunken driving.
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Military Rites Set For Pvt. Gdowik
The Camden Courier-Post announces a full military funeral for Pvt. Chester J. Gdowik, killed in action in Italy on May 25, 1944, with High Mass at St. Joseph's Church and burial at St. Joseph's cemetery, Chews Landing.
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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.
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Owner Drops Charge in Tipsy Driving
Elwood Urbanowicz refused to press a drunken driving complaint against John Czetyrka of 1176 Morton Street, drawing a rebuke from Judge Gene R. Mariano, who postponed the case pending investigation.
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Camden Man Held as Drunken Driver
A Police Court hearing for John Czetyrka, 48, of 1176 Morton Street, charged with drunken driving after an accident on Ninth Street near Fairmount Street, was held over so the other driver could be present to identify him.
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Woman and 2 Men Seized in Numbers
City detectives raided a house at 1039 Jackson Street in February 1938, seizing numbers slips representing $138 in play and arresting Joseph Orlowski, Mary Stanska and John Pawela of 1564 Louis Street.
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Polish Club Holds Amateur Matches
A February 1938 Camden Courier-Post notice of the Polish American Citizens Club resuming its amateur boxing shows with nine bouts at the Bonsall School auditorium.
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Feitz First Cop Slain Here; 6 Others Survived Wounds
The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.
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Banquet to Honor John S. M'Taggart
A testimonial dinner will be tendered Patrolman John S. McTaggart, well known member of the Camden police force, at the Sixth Ward Republican Club. He is particularly popular in the Sixth ward, where he distributes food and clothing to the poor.
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South Camden Boy Is Struck by Auto
Raymond Hozalski, 8, of Jackson Street was injured when struck by the car of Dr. Benjamin Wroblewski of 1166 Thurman Street at Tenth and Thurman Streets; the doctor took the boy to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
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Driver Caught in Chase
An alleged hit-run driver was captured by Camden fireman George Garner after a chase halfway across the Camden bridge, January 1930. Pedestrian Wallace Duvall, of 1469 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, was taken to Cooper Hospital.
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Downtown Way
A local column reporting a chimney flue fire at 208 Taylor Avenue, the private funeral of Christopher Yeager of 1233 Jackson Street, and a homemade cake sale at St. John's Episcopal church.
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Nine New Police From Nine Wards
Mayor Frank S. Van Hart swore in nine new Camden policemen, one from each of nine wards — including Edward C. Hahn of the Tenth Ward — with five more appointments to follow.
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Twenty-Two Injured, 2 Probably Fatally, in Camden Car Wreck
Twenty-two people were hurt, two probably fatally, when the body of a Pensauken-line trolley jumped its trucks at Forty-seventh Street and Maple Avenue. The motorman, Percy Williams, 37, of 688 Woodland Avenue, was among the injured.
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Lightning Starts Fires, Hits Trees, Stuns Three Boys
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.
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News of a Day in the City of Camden
A full day's Camden news for July 27, 1906, including Police Captain Stanley's capture of George Willingmire, wanted for a stabbing at Ninth and Chestnut Streets, after a desperate struggle on the way to jail.
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Camden Police Raid Alleged Speak-Easy
Captain Stanley and a squad raided an alleged speak-easy at the foot of Jackson Street, capturing Patrick Holden and two others; several hundred onlookers gathered and most of the inmates escaped.
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Slot Machine Arrests
Camden police arrested Joseph Dole, Joseph Hyde, Adam T. Davis and A. B. C. Smith on the charge of having slot gambling machines in their business places; the machines were confiscated and the four were to have a hearing before Recorder Nowrey.
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Drink-Sellers Arraigned
Camden saloon keepers charged with Sunday liquor selling, among them James Croker of Fourth and Jasper streets and John Murschell of Broadway and Jefferson street, pleaded not guilty before Mayor Westcott; Chief of Police Dodd was the complainant in all the cases.