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Sheridan Street
Sheridan Street is a residential street in Camden, NJ named for Civil War General Philip Sheridan. It originally ran from Warsaw Street east to Davis Street, later extended to South 10th Street.
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Louis Street
Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
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Leonard E. Oshushek
Camden firefighter who served 32 years from 1941 to 1971, rising to Acting Battalion Chief. Son of Camden firefighter Samuel Oshushek.
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John Lozowski
John Lozowski, Private, VMSB-341, U.S. Marine Corps, was killed on April 8, 1943, when his plane crashed at Atlantic Field, North Carolina. He is buried at St. Joseph Cemetery in Gloucester Township, NJ. He had lived at 1143 Sheridan Street in Camden, NJ.
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Michael Street
Michael Street is a one block alley-width street in Camden, running south from Jackson Street to Sheridan Street west of Mount Ephraim Avenue, with no buildings carrying Michael Street addresses.
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Davis Street
Davis Street runs southeast from north of Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in the East Camden/Morgan Village area, named for Dr. Henry Hill Davis — Camden's first medical inspector and School Medical Inspector in New Jersey.
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Kolo Street
Kolo Street is a one-block street in Camden's Fairview section, running south from Sheridan Street to Van Hook Street; three brick twin homes were built on the street, rendering six addresses.
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Clare Street
Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.
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Hallowell Lane
Hallowell Lane runs south from Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in Camden, NJ, named for Charles H. Hallowell's brickyard; though it borders New Camden Cemetery and the former Camden Municipal Hospital, no address has ever carried a Hallowell Lane number.
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Pulaski Street
Pulaski Street in Camden is named for Casimir Pulaski, the Polish nobleman and cavalry commander born in 1745 who fought in the American Revolutionary War and was made an honorary U.S. citizen.
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Judson K. Fish
Judson K. Fish was born in April 1851 in New Jersey to parents Amanda and Ezra Fish. In 1860, the family resided in Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill), New Jersey.
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Fire at 1167 and 1169 Sheridan Street
Camden Fire Department response to a fire in a vacant row house at 1167 Sheridan Street on November 8, 2011, which badly damaged 1167 and 1169 Sheridan Street.
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Store owner, wife handcuffed, robbed
Two men handcuffed Hyung Kim and his wife at Kim's Food Market, 1301 Sheridan Street, and robbed the store of between $7,000 and $8,000, a week after the grocer escaped an earlier robbery attempt.
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Man injured, home destroyed in city fire
One man was critically injured in a two-alarm fire that destroyed a row house at 1143 Sheridan St. in Camden; the story also recounts other recent city fires, including a seven-alarm fire on Westfield Avenue.
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Pinkston and Trotter Promoted
Paul B. Pinkston, Jr. of 1440 Sheridan Street and Thomas W. Trotter of 1185 Sheridan Street were promoted to Army Specialist Four while serving with signal units in Germany.
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Fire Rescue at 1440 Sheridan Street
Fire Watch commended firefighters of Engines 7 and 8 for rescuing a trapped, unconscious woman from a fire at 1440 Sheridan Street on March 27, 1977, and Fr. Denny Dowhy of Ladder Co. 2 for saving the life of a man's best friend.
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Robert Guzik Painting Advertisement
A 1969 Camden County Record advertisement for Robert Guzik, interior and exterior painting, 1240 Sheridan Street, Camden, offering free estimates.
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Police, Fire Tests Take Heavy Toll
Camden Courier-Post coverage of the June 1968 Civil Service results for the Camden fire captain and patrolman examinations, listing every candidate who passed — including Anthony D. Moffa of 23 Leonard Avenue, who scored 73.3 on the fire captain's test.
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Farland
Death notice for Frances Farland (nee Emerle), 29, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Emerle of 1131 Sheridan Street, who died March 23, 1968, with funeral arrangements at the Zembruski Funeral Home and St. Joseph's Church.
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Ann's Shopping Center Advertisement
A 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages listing for Ann's Shopping Center, a children's wear store at 1428 Sheridan Street, Camden.
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St. Joseph's Church Keeps in Touch with Men and Women in Armed Forces
A 1944 Camden Courier-Post feature by Frank Sheridan on St. Joseph's Church (the Polish parish at Tenth and Mechanic Streets), whose 1,154 mothers gave sons and daughters to the war — four killed, two missing, one a prisoner — among them Joseph Piotrowski, lost when the cruiser Helena was sunk at Kula Gulf.
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1150 Camden Poles In Service Honored
A service flag honoring 1,150 St. Joseph's Parish men and women in the armed forces was unfurled at Tenth and Mechanic Streets, where Mayor Brunner pinned gold stars on the mothers and a brother of parishioners killed or missing in World War II. Courier-Post, August 31, 1943.
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Lozowski's Body Is Returned Here
The body of John Lozowski, 20, a Camden member of the U.S. Marine flying corps killed in a training-flight plane crash at Atlantic Field, N.C., was returned to Camden; a Requiem Mass at St. Joseph's church and burial in St. Joseph's cemetery were planned.
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Mrs. Kobus to Ask More Cops, Firemen for City Next Year
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital admission report from West Jersey and Cooper hospitals, Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1940 — among those treated, Charles Neff of 39 North Thirty-third Street and May Davis of 1146 Clover Street.
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Youths Peddling Radio Arrested on Suspicion
Joseph Fiume, 16, of 1349 Van Hook Street, and Stephen Stanziak were arrested after detectives found Fiume attempting to sell a radio of unknown origin to a shopkeeper.
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2 Men Sent to Jail in Theft of Auto
Herbert Cox, 25, of 1247 Van Hook Street, and Charles Casale, 26, of 1351 Van Hook Street, were each sentenced to six months in jail for stealing an automobile from Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
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Stores, Homes Looted; Radio, Pennies Taken
Burglars who broke into two stores and a private home got $2.50 in pennies, a radio and some cigars, hitting Basile Constantine's store on Berkley Street, Michael Kelly's store on South Fourth Street and the home of James Hayes.
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Florist Shop Raid Traps Numbers Men
Detectives raided a florist shop at 1409 Mt. Ephraim Avenue used as a blind for a numbers lottery, seizing adding machines and slips and arresting Joseph Klosterman and three others, including Charles Selanski of 1286 Sheridan Street.
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Awnings
A Camden Courier-Post classified advertisement of June 7, 1933 for the Camden Awning Company at 1163 Sheridan Street, which made and repaired awnings.
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Former Cop Released on $10 Larceny Charge
John Serock, 37, of 1124 Sheridan Street, a former Camden policeman charged with stealing $10 from his brother Joseph, was released in his own recognizance by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast after saying the money had been found.
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Sheriff's Sale
Sheriff's sale notice for 1272 Sheridan Street, seized as the property of John and Pauline Baronkin at the suit of the Kosciuszko Building and Loan Association and set for sale on June 24, 1932.
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Foreign Body From Eyes
Windy days sent a score or more people to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital to have objects removed from their eyes, among them John Bertz of 1183 Sheridan Street and Arabello Cooper of 1062 Kaighn Avenue.
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Brothers Seek Aid of Police in Hunt for Missing Man
Herman Shotter, 22, of 1240 Sheridan Street, disappeared from home leaving a note to his widowed mother that led police to fear suicide; two of his brothers asked the police to search for him.
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Camden News in Brief
Camden briefs from the Philadelphia Inquirer of March 26, 1914, including the appointment of Charles Smith as a city fireman after the death of Edward Finley and building permits for twelve dwellings from 1137 to 1159 Sherman (Sheridan) Street.