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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.
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.
Nine-year-old Richard Richardson of Princess Avenue spent 39 minutes in an icy Cooper River tributary near Pine Street after trying to save a stray puppy; 13-year-old William Watkins brought him a rope.
Stanley Company of America theater advertisements from the Camden Courier-Post of January 24, 1928, for the Stanley at Broadway and Market, the Towers at Broadway and Pine, and the Grand at Broadway and Mickle.
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.
Capt. W. Scott Franklin of Fire Engine House No. 1, Fourth and Pine streets, was to get a hearing before Commissioner Hitchner on charges of being intoxicated while on duty, after a suspension the previous week.
Hoseman Roscoe Tribbett of Engine Company No. 1, Fourth and Pine streets, was suspended on a charge of being drunk and disorderly on duty, preferred by Captain W. Scott Franklin.
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.
A Camden Daily Courier advertisement in which Bornstein Electric Co., formerly at 930 Broadway, announced its new location at the southeast corner of Fifth and Pine Streets with a full line of electrical goods, wholesale and retail.
Camden policeman Ira Hall is dismissed by the City Council police committee after a hearing on vice conditions in the Third and Fifth wards, including testimony about a $250 robbery of a soldier at 229 Pine Street.
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.
Lieutenant Scott Franklin and veteran fireman Fritz Miller of the Pine street engine company go gunning at Indian Mills, Burlington county, in this 1921 Camden Daily Courier item.
Thomas Sparks, 28, of 652 Locust Street, was taken to Cooper Hospital with a pistol wound of the knee after being held up and robbed at Second and Pine Streets; James Wilson was arrested on suspicion.
Three August 1921 personal notices from the Camden Post-Telegram: a firefighter's family, Fireman Benny Waters of No. 1 engine house at Fourth and Pine streets, and two No. 8 Engine Company men vacationing.
Edmund J. Alff, real estate and insurance, announced the removal of his office from 502 Pine Street to 422 Broadway.
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.
An August 1918 classified notice offers the contents of Turner Hall on Pine Street, Camden, for sale cheap, including two pool tables, two pianos and bar fixtures.
An August 1918 special notice calls a meeting of the certificate holders of the Turnhalle Baufond Gesellschaft to authorize the sale of Turner Hall, 516 to 522 Pine Street, Camden.
Seven men arrested for playing cards openly at Second and Pine streets by Policeman Herbert Anderson were sent to the "hurry-up" court and each fined $10.
Camden's police force, headed by Chief Gravenor, attended the funeral of policeman Philip Knauff, who died of pneumonia, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 1917.
Two 12-year-old boys, William Shafer and George Hickman, admitted to Detective Brothers that they rifled the mail box at Broadway and Pine Street, Camden, stealing two packages of jewelry worth $102 mailed by jeweler Lewis Nelson.
Camden Fireman Joseph Ware, son of Policeman James Ware and a member of No. 1 Engine Company, died at his home on Fillmore Street after an automobile crank slipped and struck him in the face on June 6.
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.
Passing Turner Hall on Pine Street below Broadway, Policeman Kleaver found a bundle holding the body of a newborn male infant; Coroner Bentley sent the body to the Morgue and Detective Brothers investigated.
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.
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.
Councilman John H. Carmany of Camden's Seventh ward died at his home, 772 Pine street, after a three weeks' illness with Bright's disease. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1910.
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.
A Philadelphia Inquirer feature of November 7, 1909 recounts Camden's fire companies from the volunteer Perseverance Fire Company of 1810 to the paid department of 1869, and describes its chiefs, equipment and houses.
The Camden Daily Courier's South Camden personal notes of December 24, 1906: George Staib of 1308 Broadway recovering from an operation, the Fireside New Year Association's parade route, and a Christmas family reunion at the Broadway home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert James.
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's Fourth of July in 1904 passed without serious accidents; eight people were admitted to Cooper Hospital, and flag raising and Pyne Point Park exercises were held.
Camden Post-Telegram, September 2, 1903: neighbors on the 700 block of Pine Street, struck by appendicitis, typhoid, a factory injury and diphtheria in three weeks, believed their row of houses was "hoodooed."
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.
Camden police items from the Philadelphia Inquirer of July 21, 1900: nude bathers to be arrested, disorderly-house and whisker-pulling cases before Recorder Nowrey, and John Kupperwich of 1047 Louis Street jailed after threatening his family with a knife.
Police Captain Stanley and Sergeant Hyde raid two alleged disorderly houses on Pine Street above Tenth, arresting the reputed proprietors and thirteen inmates.
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.
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.
Judge Vroom sentenced policy writers Walter Garwood, Harriett Smith, William Parker and Washington Ketline despite Harry S. Scovel's plea for leniency, and refused Joseph Swing of 509 Taylor Avenue and John Cochran as Ketline's bondsmen.
Camden police chased and captured two employes of R. T. Robinson & Co. caught carrying lard and hams from the firm's packing house at Second and Pine streets, while burglars rifled the safe of Samuel K. Hires's store at 310 Kaighn avenue and the city's Hebrew merchants prepared to organize for self-protection.
Ella Ford, 22, of 809 Locust Street, was found murdered and buried in the cellar of her home; police sought George Morris, who was believed to have crossed the Delaware by the Federal Street ferry.
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.
A bride of two weeks, Maggie Morris of Pine Street, discovers that her husband Lewis K. Robinson already has a wife in Philadelphia, and he is arrested for bigamy.
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1888: two men arrested by Policeman Peters for stabbing Joseph Loague near City Hall, the Camden Board of Education's financial report, and a $600 fire at ex-Freeholder Gordon's stable at Second and Pine streets.
The body of a young girl, Kate Gutenkunst, was found at a Philadelphia undertaker's and traced to a Pine Street house in Camden, where Mrs. Engle was held on a malpractice charge.