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Five Candidates Pass Tests for Park Guards
Five candidates passed the Camden Park guard civil service test; Charles D. Phillips of 121 North Twenty-third Street finished first with a score of 77.13.
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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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Shipyard Wages Lure to Firemen
Fire Chief Peter B. Carter reported six resignations, two deaths and one vacancy from the draft as the shipyards drew men from Camden's Fire Department; Lieutenant Walter Mertz was made captain and the Fire Committee appointed seven new firemen.
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Mother of Ten Is Accused
Frank Dungan and Mrs. Katie C. Beach, arrested together at 128 Federal Street by State Detective Frank Miller, were held in $300 bail each by Justice of the Peace Frank Sheridan on a charge preferred by her husband, George Beach.
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Boy Refuses to Name Lad Who Hit Him; Dies
Camden Post-Telegram - January 29, 1917 The name of the schoolmate who caused his death was locked behind the lips of seven-year-old Irwin Werner, when he died at the Cooper Hospital , Camden, today, of brain clot.
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3 Policemen Hurt As Car Hits Ambulance
Collision Occurs as Machine Speeds to Home of Man Who Attempted Suicide Three Camden policemen were injured, one of them seriously, last night, when the First district auto ambulance was struck by a trolley car while responding to a call from 2310 Carman street , where Bodine Stratton, 39 years old, had shot himself over the heart.
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Held for Strike Riot
Joseph Copvinski of 1053 Diamond Street and Frank Notevis of Mount Vernon Street were held in $1,000 bail each on charges arising from labor troubles at the Keystone Leather Company.
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Two Firemen Hurt in Crash With Car
The chemical engine of No. 7 Company, answering a fire alarm on Sycamore Street, sideswiped a Kaighn Avenue trolley and threw firemen Horace Cairns and George Boone to the street.
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Camden Gang Fighters Are Held for Trial
A fight between rival gangs at Louis and Sycamore streets in August 1913 drew about fifty participants; several men were held in bail or jailed for disorderly conduct, and Policeman Cornog lost his badge in the melee.
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News of a Day in the City of Camden
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.
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Three Firemen Met Death in Camden Blaze
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.
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In a Mix-Up of Eggs
Matthew Menders of 830 South Third Street was pinned beneath his overturned wagon and nearly smothered in broken eggs when his horse ran away at Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Mt. Vernon Street.
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Fragments of Cannon Crashed Into Bedroom
Captain Stanley traced a mysterious New Year's Eve explosion that sent iron fragments through the shutters of G. C. Burkett's Newton Avenue bedroom to a hotelkeeper whose celebratory cannon had burst.
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Many Persons Hurt While Celebrating
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.
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Father Shoots His Son Then Suicides
Joseph Caskey, a 60-year-old teamster of 820 Mount Vernon Street, shot and killed his son Joseph in a stable yard behind William Sultzbach's saloon at Ninth and Walnut, then turned the revolver on himself. Captain Stanley and Sergeant Reeder took charge of the bodies.
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Police Disperse Socialist Crowd
An open-air meeting of the Camden branch of the Socialist party at Broadway, Newton Avenue and Mt. Vernon Street was stopped by order of Mayor Hatch. Chief Foster, Captain Stanley and twenty-five patrolmen dispersed the crowd.
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Chinese Puzzle
Tack Sing, a Chinese laundryman at Seventh and Mt. Vernon Streets, was arrested on a policy-writing charge after a slip covered in Chinese characters was found on him. An interpreter testified the slip was a doctor's prescription for toothache medicine.
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Over in Camden
A column of Camden news briefs from the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 1895 — including fires at the homes of Albert Fleet and Samuel Harring, and the arrest of sneak thief Samuel Harmon, who tried to strip a clothes line in Policeman Schregler's own back yard.
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Old-Time Fire Laddies.
Camden's old-time volunteer firemen, out of active service since 1869 but still keeping their headquarters at Broadway and Mount Vernon streets, paraded a new hose carriage through the city with Marshal Charles M. Baldwin at the head of the line.
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Grade Crossing Victims
Albert Beck and George S. Jordon of 1051 Diamond Street were struck and killed by the West Jersey Railroad's Bridgeton accommodation train at the Van Hook Street grade crossing in Camden.
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Over in Camden
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 12, 1891: saloonkeeper William Gallagher of 106 Kaighn avenue pays his Sunday-selling fine, the Rev. J. Livingston Allen of the Kaighn Avenue Methodist Church marks his silver anniversary, and Thomas Guthridge sues the West Jersey Railroad Company for $10,000.
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The Year 1833 - Camden, NJ
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.