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Democratic speakers, urging suffrage in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and the local Democratic ticket, will invade seven political clubs in the city and county tonight.
Shrine Club to Select Contest Winner at Convention Hall Show Sixteen South Jersey girls are competing in a popularity contest which closes tonight at the first annual professional show and dance of Camden Shrine Club in Convention Hall .
Two persons were injured when the American Legion Post ambulance of Gloucester collided with a truck at Broadway and Pine Street. The truck was driven by John Max, 46, of 928 North 30th Street.
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.
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.
Detectives remained unable to establish the cause of a razor battle at 343 Pine Street in which Palmier Delaiso was severely cut. Patrolman Raymond Stark, answering an anonymous call, found Delaiso unconscious and arrested Angelo Sobi as he tried to flee.
Vice squad raids nine alleged disorderly houses in South Camden at midnight, including at 703 Baxter Street, the home of Walter Edgerton known as the 'Kentucky Rosebud.'
The Camden vice squad raided nine alleged disorderly houses in South Camden in February 1927. The largest raid hit the home of former prize fighter Walter 'Kentucky Rosebud' Edgerton; Unity Hall at 318 Joint Alley was among the places raided.
Mayor Frank S. Van Hart swore in nine new Camden policemen, one from each of nine wards — including Edward C. Hahn of the Tenth Ward — with five more appointments to follow.
President H. H. Davis of the Camden Board of Health selected the Battery B Armory as an emergency hospital during the 1918 influenza and pneumonia epidemic.
Allese Di Dazio of 442 Pine Street, claiming he only supplied his boarders, was held in $500 bail for court on a charge of selling liquor on Sunday after Captain Stanley's squad arrested him and thirteen men.
Sixteen men, several cases of beer and many quarts of gin and whisky were taken in Captain Stanley's raid on a house at 214 Pine Street; alleged proprietress Annie Handy escaped.
Miss Margaret M. Oberst, the pretty and talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Oberst, of 809 South Fifth street, was married yesterday morning at 11 o'clock in SS. Peter and Paul's Church, St. John and Spruce streets, to Mr. James B. West, Jr., a prominent plumber and stepson of John McGowan, of 501 Trenton avenue.
Acting on Mayor Ellis's recent order, police under Captain Stanley raided four Camden places and seized slot machines; the proprietors were to be heard before Recorder Stackhouse.
Camden briefs for February 1, 1903, including Captain Stanley's raid on William W. Woomer's barber shop at 264 Kaighn Avenue on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Edna M. Laird.
Camden briefs for December 30, 1902, including the $5 fines imposed on six men captured in a gambling den by Police Captain Stanley and a squad of officers.
Captain Arthur Stanley and a squad raid policy-writers and speak-easies; among those arrested are residents of 703 and 721 Baxter Street.
Police Captain Stanley and Sergeant Hyde raid two alleged disorderly houses on Pine Street above Tenth, arresting the reputed proprietors and thirteen inmates.
A squad of policemen under Captain Stanley raided crap shooters along Camden's river front, capturing thirteen prisoners at the Arch Street lumber yards and Second and Clinton Streets before an accidental revolver shot let the rest escape.
A race riot in South Camden's Seventh Ward leaves two men wounded; police, including Policemen Hyde and McClung, exchange pistol fire with the combatants and make several arrests.
During the Civil War, Camden purchased its first steam fire apparatus on June 4, 1864 the Independence Fire Company No. 3 purchased an Amoskeag steamer for $3250. This apparatus was a third class, single pump style with serial #92.