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Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
Temporary Laborers Dismissed, While Men Ousted by Hartmann Are Reinstated Three dismissals, three promotions and four reinstatements and two new hirings were announced yesterday by City Commissioner Henry Magin , director of public works.
Three women and two men injured in automobile accidents over the weekend. Walter H. Holler of 884 Beideman Avenue was involved in a collision near Haddon Avenue and Line Street; two others were hurt at Ferry Avenue and Charles Street.
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
County Physician David S. Rhone ordered an autopsy and a coroner's inquest into the death of Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot during the January 11 holdup of a Penn street card game. Luigi Tortu, one of three people arrested for questioning, was released.
Luigi Tortu, 21, of 426 Line Street, and two girls, Pearl Wills of Delair and Evelyn Buffa of 810 Florence Street, were held by Camden city and county police after Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot in the January 11, 1938 holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street, died in Cooper Hospital 13 days later.
Joseph Auletto, 40, of 909 South Fourth Street paid a $25 fine after detectives raided a craps game in his poolroom; five others, including Joseph Bailey of 1354 Morton Street, received suspended sentences.
The Camden Housing Advisory Committee recommended that the city clear 20 blocks of sub-standard properties, 895 dwellings in two areas, to save on municipal service costs; Mayor Frederick von Nieda favored eliminating the areas but opposed spending city money without assurance of a return.
Test Case Decree Awaits Jurist's Signature Today On Federal Employment Camden Group Endorses Action of Philadelphia Martine The Philadelphia veteran of the World War who was responsible for obtaining a court ruling safeguarding veterans rights for preference on Federal employment projects, last night told his story to Camden ex-service men.
Stanley Powell, 28, of 1256 Whitman Avenue, was jailed without bail in connection with the $10,380.50 robbery of Mrs. Mary Shane on Broadway near Kaighn Avenue, while police questioned Frank Gromacki, 28, of 412 Broadway, in the same case.
Military and Civic Organizations Parade in Camden and Join Services Addressed by Clergy and Congressman Wolverton More than 2500 persons attended a joint veterans memorial observance in Convention Hall which followed a parade of veterans and civic organizations yesterday afternoon.
Camden Detectives Vernon Jones and Thomas Cheesman arrested Phillip Attardi of 320 Vine Street at Broadway and Line Streets on a charge of "on suspicion" after state police asked Camden police to look for him.
Ernest Tinney, 17, was sentenced to 100 days in jail for throwing stones through train windows at Haddon avenue and Line street; three youths arrested with him received suspended sentences.
Two Camden cigar stores were robbed overnight; a would-be break-in at Mary Meksa's home at 1453 South Tenth Street was thwarted by a barking dog.
Aerial view and street-level photographs of the Camden Convention Hall on Argonne Street, which was demolished in the 1950s when Campbell Soup acquired the land.
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando took evidence from raids on 35 alleged gambling haunts to the Camden County grand jury in a drive against slot machines, while Republican leaders reportedly wanted him called off.
Donald Pollard, 10, of 779 Baxter Street, sentenced to five days in the Detention Home by Police Judge Bertman for throwing a brick at Rose Fanelli of 212 Line Street.
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.
Joseph Troiano of 603 Avon Street and Vincent Zito of 209 Line Street are photographed playing "Upper" (Egg-Picking), the traditional South Jersey Easter game, for the Camden Courier-Post.
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
Chief Gravenor charged City Detective George Murray and Policemen Ira Hall, William Draper and Tony Latorre with unbecoming conduct, rule violations and neglect of duty after City Counsel Bleakly's inquiry into vice conditions.
Watchman John Brazier is shot through the chest resisting two robbers at Fourth and Line streets; Captain Schregler links the pair to another Camden holdup.
Members of the Sixth Ward Women's Republican Club, assembling at their club house at 908 Broadway, viewed the body of Mrs. Della Ward, wife of Policeman George Ward, at the family home at 610 Line Street. Her funeral was largely attended by South Camden policemen, with interment in Arlington cemetery.
Constable William Cramer died of gunshot wounds sustained while serving a writ of attachment at Tuckahoe; vaudeville actor Harry Batchelder was arrested at Audubon by Captain of Detectives William Schregler and Detective Fiore Troncone.
After the funeral of Regicina Barnetto, whose death is ruled a strangulation, Captain of Detectives Schregler holds the widow and her brother while his department investigates.
Street Commissioner Sayers began work on improving nearly a score of Camden streets, starting with Spruce Street from Broadway to Sixth Street, with Trenton Avenue from Newton Avenue to Line Street to be repaved next. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 1915.
Benjamin F. Powell, 33, of 1073 Morton Street had a leg badly crushed when a roof fell on him near a building under construction at the head of Line Street, but he refused to go to a hospital.
Marriage license notices issued by the Camden City Clerk in October 1913, including Madeline Brion of 656 Grant Street.
Wilson James of 912 South Third Street had badly lacerated lips dressed at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital after being struck with brass knuckles, among the cases treated there over a weekend in July 1913.
Camden police believe Ilario Di Antonio, sailing for Italy, stabbed William Gallagher to death at Locust and Pine streets on December 8, 1912; two compatriots were arrested after Detectives Schregler and Troncone investigated.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on February 23, 1912 that the Board of Playground Commissioners would give the first of a series of entertainments for working girls that night at the Carnegie Library, Broadway and Line streets.
Four Camden residents suffered heat prostration on June 23, 1910, including Anna Connor, 17, of 209 Byron Street, treated at Cooper Hospital.
Camden Post-Telegram, May 20, 1910: fireman Arthur Wingate, driver of the combination chemical and hose wagon, passes a restless night at Cooper Hospital after the team crashed into an iron column of the elevated railroad at Haddon Avenue and Line Street.
City on Saint Valentine's Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning "Slow Town" Across the River Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.
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.
Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton.
Three firemen — George Shields, William Hillman, and William Jobes — are killed and nine people injured when fire destroys the old Sixth Regiment Armory in Camden.
George Willingmire terrorised South Camden with a shotgun and a bull terrier, wounding four people before plunging into the Eighth Street swamp. Captain Stanley pursued him to within twenty feet before Willingmire loaded his gun and threatened to fire.
The Court of Chancery dismissed Mary E. Shaw's divorce suit against Policeman Albert Shaw and refused a divorce to Mrs. William Sand, wife of a Haddon avenue saloon keeper, on a charge of brutality.
Camden briefs for August 16, 1900, including a $10.75 fine imposed on saloonkeeper William F. Sands for using abusive language to Police Captain Stanley.
The Camden County Law and Order League renewed its complaints against forty-eight liquor sellers who escaped indictment, hinting that political pull had saved them, and gave the grand jury a list of accused saloonkeepers including several on Kaighn avenue.
City Counsel Morgan found that a law allows Camden to issue $200,000 in bonds for repaving, and petitions circulated to lay sheet asphalt on Market, Federal, Kaighn, Broadway, Haddon and Cooper streets, with the Camden and Suburban Railway sharing the cost.
Real Estate Investment Co. advertises 124 Clay Street for rent — 4 rooms at $6.00 per month — along with other Camden properties. Camden Daily Telegram, March 11, 1897.
The Camden City Excise Board resolved to revoke all licenses left unpaid on Monday, granted retail and wholesale licenses, reconsidered and granted the applications of John Ross and Herman Meier of 825 Market Street, and transferred William Brown's license at 400 Jasper Street to James P. Croker.
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 19, 1891: local Camden items, including a burglary at J. Hermann's tailoring establishment at 1120 Broadway, the start of cars on the new Fourth street line, and Mayor Pratt holding William Kemble in $500 bail on a policy-writing charge.
The Quarter Sessions Court trial of John F. Stratton and Henry Mellon, charged with the May 6, 1888 knife and blackjack attack on Joseph Logue near Starr's crossing, Tenth and Line streets, with testimony from Logue, Miss Sarah Lewine, Christopher Smith, Dr. Henry Jarrett, Charles R. Locke and Knight Haines.
Residents and property owners of Camden's Fourth and Sixth wards petition City Council for an under-drainage culvert running from the Line Street culvert at Broadway out to Sixth Street and north to Sixth and Royden. Arthur Stanley, then of 929 Newton Avenue, signed among the petitioners.
A freight locomotive of the Pennsylvania Railroad exploded inside the Camden round house; watchman Richard Rourke was fatally injured and died at his home on South Second Street.
That section of the city commonly known as Fettersville was purchased by Richard Fetters in 1833 from Charity and Grace Kaighn and embraced the land lying between Line and Cherry Streets, extending from Third Street to the Delaware River.