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Public Service Corporation

Map of Cramer Hill and East Camden, 1914
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17th Street

Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East Camden.

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Newspaper clipping, P. O. S. of A. Honors Wives, July 24, 1941
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P. O. S. of A. Honors Wives

A party in honor of wives of members was held by Washington Camp, No. 117, P. O. S. of A., at its camp room, 531 Penn Street, July 1941.

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Newspaper clipping: Reesman denies light fund shift, Camden Courier-Post, January 27, 1928
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Reesman Denies Light Fund Shift

Commissioner Clay W. Reesman denied Harry P. Pelouze's charge that leftover lighting funds were shifted to another department, saying the city simply lacked money for the extra lights the Broadway Business Men's Association wanted.

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Camden Post-Telegram clipping, March 26, 1906: Penny Caused Lively Set-To, a police court trolley dispute
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Penny Caused Lively Set-To

The Camden Post-Telegram reported that Recorder Stackhouse suspended sentence on Harry Holmes after trolley conductor H. Selby's account of a fight over a missing penny was disputed by Policeman Howard Smith and Freeholder Larry Rhoades.

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Philadelphia Inquirer column "Camden News Notes," November 18, 1903
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Camden News Notes — November 18, 1903

Camden briefs for November 18, 1903: the funeral of John Guthridge at 814 Linden Street, a gas explosion at the Public Service Corporation coke works, and the death of Mrs. Mary Peschmann at 1130 Broadway.

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