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2 Men Pay Fines for Interference
Two men were fined $25 each for interfering with Motorcycle Policeman Earl Wright's investigation of a 2:20 a.m. auto accident at Ninth Street and Kaighn Avenue.
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15th Victim Dies in Gas Plant Blast
With the death toll from the gas blast at the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. plant at Locust and Cherry streets increased to 15, families began burying their dead; Spiro Cecich, 37, of 1815 Salem Street died in Cooper Hospital.
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Cooper Hospital Cases
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital on December 28, 1931, including William May, 48, of 2118 Berwick Street, treated for bruises of chest and ribs after falling down stairs.
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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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Three Youths Sent to Detention Home
Police Judge Pancoast sent three youths to the detention home, including Edward Bedanski, 13, of 1265 Whitman Avenue, who pleaded guilty with Henry Garbecki to trying to break into the Camden Storage Battery Company. Camden Courier-Post, October 29, 1931.
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Democrats to Hold Meetings Tonight
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
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Four Prominent Physicians
Ben Courter's 1931 Camden Courier-Post reminiscence of four leading South Jersey physicians — Drs. Godfrey, Iszard, Davis and Gross — recalling how Dr. H. H. Davis transformed health care for Camden's schoolchildren.
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Charity Solicitor Gets 50-Day Term
William W. Jones, arrested by Motorcycle Policeman Earl Wright for soliciting "charity" funds on a Philadelphia permit, was sentenced to 50 days in jail by Police Judge Pancoast.
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American Jewish Yearbook, 1931–1932
The American Jewish Yearbook, 1931–1932, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, lists 40 Camden annual members with their addresses, including Lewis Liberman, 307 Market Street.
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Camden Will Honor Chief Stehr Today
Camden prepared to pay its last respects to Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, whose funeral cortege would leave Schroeder's, 538 Broadway, for Harleigh Cemetery. Several thousand persons viewed the body, and the entire police department marched past it.
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Camden Will Honor Chief Stehr Today
The Camden Morning Post reported that the funeral cortege of Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr would leave Schroeder's Chapel, Broadway and Royden street, for Harleigh Cemetery, after thousands filed past his bier and the entire police department marched past the body.
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6 Men Are Nabbed as Number Writers
Six alleged number writers were arrested by Camden's traffic squad on downtown street corners, spreading the belief that Atlantic City racketeers had set up "branch offices" in Camden; two were jailed for 60 days by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
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Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup
Roxie Allen, Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and Carmen Passarella of 1227 Broadway were arrested and identified by police as two of four men who held up a craps game at Landisville, where the loot was said to total between $150 and $200.
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Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game
Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths were held without bail after being identified as four of the five bandits who robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom.
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Two Alleged Gangsters Trapped by Cops in Harleigh Cemetery
A weekend crime sweep in Camden: two alleged Philadelphia gangsters were trapped in Harleigh Cemetery by Patrolman Howard Bean and others, while a South Camden grocer routed two holdup men — four suspects held for the Grand Jury.
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Bandit Gun Found
A loaded double-barreled sawed-off shotgun was dug out of a sewer at Second and Federal streets; Detective Robert Ashenfelter tried to link it to guns stolen from the William Stein hardware store and to the holdup of Freeholder Leonard Brehm's saloon.
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Youth Is Killed As Three 'Skip' School to Hunt
Theodore Jakucki, 14, of 1207 Whitman Avenue, was killed in Pennsauken Township when Meyer Albert, 16, of 1186 Kaighn Avenue, fired a shotgun at a rising quail during a hunting trip the boys took instead of going to school; Leon Grenkwicz, 15, was with them.
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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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Liquor Raid Fines Enrich City $1020
Speakeasy patrons, proprietors and 13 youthful craps players paid $1020 in fines and forfeitures after weekend police raids across Camden, including cigar stores at 2318 and 2314 Federal Street and Joseph Dugan's oyster saloon at 2222 Federal Street.
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Doris Convicted at Quick Trial; Gets Ten Years
John Doris, 30, a Philadelphia gangster, was tried, convicted and sentenced by Judge Samuel M. Shay to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison for the April 29 shooting of Joseph Connors in Kaighn avenue near Broadway; his wife fainted in court as the penalty was set.
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Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia
More than 1500 guests attended the reception at the Sons of Italy Hall after Miss Jennie Maroccia of South Third Street married Louis Cavallo of 314 Kaighn Avenue at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
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Precautions Taken to Prevent Outbreak by Gangdom Friends
Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin barred spectators and ordered a heavy guard for the Criminal Court trial of alleged racketeer John Doris, charged with shooting Joseph Connors near Broadway and Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.
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Connors Refuses to Name Assailant in Shooting at Club
Discharged from West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, Joseph Connors of Gloucester refused to identify John Doris as the man who shot him in a brawl over a girl on Broadway near Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.
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Doris Indictment Studied by Police
Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Palese began preparing to take John Doris to a quick trial for the murder of Joseph "Mose" Flannery, while Doris sat in jail on charges of shooting Joseph Connors at Broadway and Kaighn avenue.
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Gangster Shot as Racketeers Open War Here
John Doris, brother of the electrocuted Frank Doris, was arrested after Joseph Connors of Gloucester was shot in front of the American Restaurant, 506 Kaighn avenue, near Broadway; a police roundup netted 10 men held as material witnesses.
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Warrant Out for Slayer of Mose Flannery
Captain John Golden, head of the Camden city detective bureau, announced that detectives knew who killed Eighth Ward political leader "Mose" Flannery and held warrants for his arrest, as 2500 mourners turned out for the solemn high requiem mass at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.
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Scene of Shooting at 101 Kaighn Avenue
A Camden Evening Courier photograph of the saloon property at 101 Kaighn Avenue, on the northeast corner of Front Street, where Eighth ward political worker Joseph "Mose" Flannery was shot after a scuffle inside the barroom.
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Safe Combination Blown; $350 Stolen
A 1928 Camden Evening Courier report on the burglary of three Haddon Avenue offices, where $350 was blown from a safe and linked to the Flannery shooting.
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Joseph Sparks
Policeman Joseph Sparks, a city employee for 17 years, died at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital from spinal meningitis. He lived at 20 North Twenty-eighth Street and had served as a patrolman since 1918, after seven years as a junior captain in Fire Company No. 7.
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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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Polack Joe Out on Bail Despite Murder Charge
Although still technically charged with murder in the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph ("Polack Joe") Devon was released from the Camden county jail under $2,500 bail fixed by Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Varbalow, without Judge Samuel M. Shay or Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott being consulted.
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Man and Wife Saved by Passing Firemen
Trapped over a blazing butcher shop on Kaighn Avenue, a man and wife were carried down a ladder by Engine Company 9 firemen returning from one of four serious fires that called out every piece of apparatus in Camden.
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Eight Boys Are Held, Colored Fagin Sought
Eight Camden boys, including Edward and Jess Luczkiewicz of 1051 Louis Street, were committed to the detention home in February 1928 for stealing copper wire and battery plates; police sought the junk dealer said to have bought the goods.
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Along Memory Lane
Ben Courter recalls the old one-horse dinkey of the Camden Horse Railroad Company on South Second street, and the night in the '90s when driver "Joe" Hackney and his horse carried a posse of armed Kaighn Point citizens up and down Second street chasing a runaway steer.
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Camden Hadassah Will Stage Dance
The Camden Chapter of the Hadassah planned an elaborate dance at the Talmud-Torah Building on Kaighn Avenue, with more than three hundred guests expected and music by the Black Cat Orchestra.
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Thomas J. Daley, Sr.
The funeral of Thomas J. Daley, Sr., father of Thomas J. Daley, city engineer of Camden, will be held from his late residence, 1471 Baird avenue, on Wednesday. Daley was known as one of the oldest blacksmiths and wheelwrights in the city.
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Suspected Sniper Charges Frameup by ‘Real Phantom’
Eugene Marshall, 21, of 404 Jasper Street, admitted he was the man Camden police sought after an anonymous letter named him the "phantom sniper," but charged he was framed by an enemy he believed to be the real sniper. The same day a fire-alarm box at Kaighn Avenue and Hyde Park was drilled, and a weekend shot narrowly missed Joseph Carone.
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Miss Esther Markowitz to Wed Harry Gross
Miss Esther Markowitz, 1355 Park Boulevard, will become the bride of Harry Gross, a Philadelphia pharmacist, Sunday evening at Sons of Israel Synagogue, Eighth and Sycamore streets.
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City Engineer Clerk Is Again Discharged
E. Allan Weinstein, chief clerk in the office of Thomas J. Daley, city engineer, received notice today from Frank B. Hanna, superintendent of streets, that he has been discharged.
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Gangster Shot During Melee In Sixth Ward
Joseph Cimini, 31, declared by police to be a Philadelphia gangster, was killed in the Sixth Ward Republican Club, 908 Broadway; Joseph "Polack Joe" Deven, who fired the shot, was held on a murder charge, declaring he had fired in self-defense.
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S. Levy, Building Contractor
Camden Courier-Post, January 9, 1928: a business-card advertisement for S. Levy, building contractor, 1214 Kaighn Avenue, giving his Bell and Keystone telephone numbers.
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'Voodoo' Is Held for Murder
Police held "Doctor" H. H. Hyghcock without bail after discovering a maze of tunnels, "witch caves," and gruesome remains beneath 413 and 415 Liberty Street; Police Judge Cleary first held him on lesser charges.
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Foreign Body From Eyes
Windy days sent a score or more people to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital to have objects removed from their eyes, among them John Bertz of 1183 Sheridan Street and Arabello Cooper of 1062 Kaighn Avenue.
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Frank Holmes Dies
Frank H. Holmes, 65, of 1751 Miller Street, died at his home after months of illness; funeral services were held at the parlors of undertaker George W. Benson, Jr., 907 Kaighn Avenue.
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City Is Mourning Carrigan's Death
Camden's municipal buildings, police stations and firehouses were draped in mourning for Captain Martin Carrigan, who died of injuries received fighting the Kaighn Avenue fire; city council voted to pay the expense of his funeral.
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Captain Carrigan Dies of Hurts in Kaighn Ave. Fire
Captain Martin B. Carrigan of Engine Company No. 2 died at Cooper Hospital of a fractured skull and severe burns received while leading his men at the Economy Store fire on Kaighn Avenue.
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Camden Business Block Threatened
A fire in Neil Zeidman's men's furnishing store at 437 Kaighn Avenue spread to the Almar store, causing $28,000 in damage; Fire Lieutenant Harry Chambers of South Eighth Street was overcome by smoke.
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Wedding Bells of June
Mid-week South Camden weddings announced at the close of June 1921, including Mrs. Anna Bogaski and Egnic Rathchovcke of 1297 Morton Street.
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Anthony J. Oberst
Advertisement announcing that Anthony J. Oberst, real estate and insurance broker and member of the Camden Real Estate Board, is now located at 1253 Princess Avenue, corner of Kaighn Avenue. Camden Post-Telegram, May 19, 1919.
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Gives Medal to Veteran Fireman
Engineer John A. Dold retired on a pension after twenty-five years in the Camden Fire Department, and the men of No. 7 Engine Company presented him with a gold medal and a silk American flag before he marched out Kaighn avenue.