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Burns Street
Burns Street was in Camden's Poet's Row neighborhood, named for Robert Burns. Three blocks of row homes built in the 1890s, all destroyed in the catastrophic Poet's Row fire of August 1972.
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Segal Street
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Order Razing of 6 Buildings as Fire Hazard
Six Camden properties on Newton Avenue, Segal Street, Carpenter Street, 250 Burns Street, and Kaighn Avenue were ordered demolished as unfit for habitation and fire hazards.
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Woman Shot 10 Times By No. Camden Suitor Spurned for 3 Years
Florence Gottwald, 26, of 1036 Segal Street, lay near death in Cooper Hospital after Emil Mascher, 46, a suitor she had spurned for three years, shot her 10 times in front of her home and then waited at Front and Erie streets to be arrested.
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City Bureaus Keep Costs Within Budget for 1937
Brunner Lauds Rulers for $40,000 Saving by Co-operation in Offices $302,000 IS VOTED ON STREET BONDS All departments of the city government were operated within the budget appropriations during 1937 and the city's saving, as a result, was $40,000, Mayor George E. Brunner announced yesterday.
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Swung at Sgt. Smith, Sentence Suspended
A man who allegedly aimed a blow at Sgt. Ray Smith, ex-heavyweight champion of the A.E.F. Tuesday night received a 30-day suspended sentence in police court yesterday.
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3 Hydrant Showers Dedicated; Segal Street Youngsters Happy
The Camden Courier-Post of August 8, 1935 reports the dedication of three fire hydrant showers on Segal Street, North Camden, sponsored by the North Camden Garden Club, with Mayor Frederick von Nieda turning on the first spray.
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Stool Pigeons Ordered Brought Into Court
Three women arrested in illicit liquor raids, including Mrs. Sarah Dowling of 7 Wood Street, were given a four-day respite in Camden police court when Judge Garfield Pancoast ordered police to produce the stool pigeons who made the buys.
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Letter to the Editor of The Evening Courier
A letter signed J. T. L. answers questions raised after the Erie Street fire about the fence at the end of Segal Street, locked fire tower doors and the fire department's right of entry. Camden Courier-Post, February 29, 1928.
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Fire-Fence Probe Refused by City
City officials refused to investigate the fences on Segal Street that firemen said hampered them at the $225,000 Varoma Building fire at Second and Erie streets.
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Fence That Hampered Firemen
A Courier-Post photo and sketch map show the fence at the end of Segal Street, above Erie Street, which firemen said hampered them at the $225,000 fire of February 23, 1928.
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2 Firms to Demand City Begin Probe of Fence as Aid in Fire
Officials of two North Camden plants wiped out by fire announced they would demand an investigation into why a ten foot fence was allowed across Segal Street and an adjoining alley near the John R. Evans and Company property.
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New Buildings Going Up
Camden Daily Courier - November 15, 1890 Many Houses Now Being Erected Camden builders do not seem to be deterred by the fear of financial panic or an idea that the McKinley bill presages disaster in business.