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Legion Auxiliaries Plan June Events
Camden Courier-Post - June 7, 1933 Both the Fairview and Mt. Ephraim American Legion Auxiliaries have scheduled events for this week.
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2 Youths Are Caught In Padlocked Cafe
Two Whitman Park youths, Thomas Hines and Leon Gentek, were held without bail in June 1932 after a special watchman caught them leaving the cellar of the padlocked Purdy's Cafe at Van Hook Street and Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
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Truck Injures Camden Man
Harvey Bryan, 28, of 3049 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, was struck at Collings Avenue and Alabama Road; driver Harry Cohen, 19, of 1134 Locust Street, took him to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
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Pension Increased
William P. Cotter, a Spanish-American War veteran of 1800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, Camden, was granted an increase in his pension, according to the office of Congressman Charles A. Wolverton.
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Man Held in $2000 Bail on Auto Theft Charge
John Hlinicky, 18, of Whitman Avenue near Mt. Ephraim was held in $2000 bail by Recorder James T. Carey of Haddonfield for the theft of a car belonging to Joseph P. Thomas. Camden Courier-Post, June 10, 1932.
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'Bus Bandits' Found Guilty; Face 15 Years
Reino A. Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden Street, and Henry N. Mallet, 21, of 119 North Ninth Street, were found guilty of holding up two bus drivers by a jury of eleven, after juror Charles B. Kay was excused saying he had been beaten and "put on the spot."
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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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2 Youths Face Court And Deny Store Murder
Camden Courier-Post, December 9, 1930: John Makowski and Stanley Janasz, indicted in the killing of American Store manager John W. Cullen, plead not guilty as the prosecutor prepares to seek the death penalty.
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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 Miss Death Sentence by Fraction of Inch; 'Sheiks' Confess Shooting Store Manager
Two young bandits who robbed an American chain store at 1201 Lansdowne Avenue and shot its manager, John Cullen, 22, confess as Cullen fights for his life in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
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City Policeman Drowns in Lake at Blackwood
Camden motorcycle policeman Joseph G. Ward, 34, of 1572 Louis Street, drowned in Blackwood lake in May 1930 when his canoe overturned after a Moonlight Social Club outing; Gloucester Township police opened an investigation.
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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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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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Whitman Park Shop 21st Sniper Target
South Jersey's "phantom sniper" fired his twenty-first shot, drilling the plate glass door of Benjamin Donde's shop at 1201 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. County detectives were assigned to the manhunt.
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Moonshine Raid at 1066 Thurman Street
Police raiders found a 25-gallon still, three gallons of moonshine and a set of coils at the home of Stanley Saposki, 1066 Thurman Street, and arrested Frank Beuclawski of Mount Ephraim Avenue on a liquor charge.
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Robberies Involving $200 Reported Here
Two thefts totaling about $200 were reported: $50 taken from William Liebeknecht's home at 1380 Whitman Avenue, and a diamond-set platinum watch missed by Miss Helen Meksa of Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Camden Courier, June 8, 1925.
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Sue Jitney Driver for $15,000
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ragan of 1238 Vanhook street sued jitney driver Nathan Obus of 1422 Wildwood avenue for $15,000 after a motorcyclist collided with his machine at Mt. Ephraim and Atlantic avenue and threw them out.
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Camden News in Brief
Camden briefs from the Philadelphia Inquirer of March 26, 1914, including the appointment of Charles Smith as a city fireman after the death of Edward Finley and building permits for twelve dwellings from 1137 to 1159 Sherman (Sheridan) Street.
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Camden's News Budget
Philadelphia Inquirer - December 16, 1889. Adolph Meyers, of 1109 Emma street, who attempted to kill himself late Saturday night, is locked up at the City Hall; a christening at Mount Ephraim and Kaighn avenues ends in a free fight.
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The Year 1836 - Camden, NJ
The Camden Cemetery, known in modern times as Old Camden Cemetery, adjoining the Newton Friends' burying grounds, through an action of a town meeting of the Township of Camden, was founded on March 10, 1836.