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Ormond Avenue

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Linden Street

Linden Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden; large portions were demolished for the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Rutgers University and the toll plaza.

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1906 Sanborn Map showing Crefeld Street (then Arion Avenue), Camden NJ
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Crefeld Street

Crefeld Street is a short street running east from 1540 Haddon Avenue that originally ran alongside the Convent of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary Shrine before becoming part of the Our Lady of Lourdes hospital grounds.

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18 Qualify as Camden Firemen - 1968-08-16
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18 Qualify As Camden Firemen

Camden Courier-Post - August 16, 1968 4 for Police TRENTON - The Civil Service division announced yesterday that 14 Camden residents have passed examinations for employment in the city fire department.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1964: Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office, a front-page article continued on page 39
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Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office

A Camden fire pumper from Engine 1, answering a mattress fire, collided with an automobile and crashed through the front of an insurance office at Broadway and Pine Streets, injuring firemen, a passerby and the car's occupants and leaving the building condemned.

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Camden Courier-Post clipping, January 6, 1964: Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto
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Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto

A Camden fire engine driven by Fireman Isaac Muns collided with a car at Broadway and Pine Street and plunged into an insurance office on the corner, injuring two firemen, a woman waiting for a bus, the car's two occupants and a city worker shoring up the building.

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Article "Tetrachloride Fumes Sicken 3 Firemen", Camden Courier-Post, March 4, 1961.
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Tetrachloride Fumes Sicken 3 Firemen

Three Engine Company 8 hosemen, including Clarence Hawkins of 1570 Park Boulevard, were sickened by fumes after police used a carbon tetrachloride extinguisher on a mattress fire on Walnut Street.

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Obituary headlined Charles Foulon, Ex-Baker, Dies, Camden Courier-Post, January 11, 1950
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Charles Foulon, Ex-Baker, Dies

Charles Foulon, 74, of 1453 Ormond Avenue, who operated the Foulon bakery in the 500 block of Federal Street for many years, died in West Jersey Hospital in January 1950. The business had been established by his father.

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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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