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The Conley Family of Camden, NJ
A photographic record of the Conley family of Camden, New Jersey, who arrived in the late 1890s and were among the first families to move to Yorkship Village during World War I.
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South Camden
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Old Ferries - Annals of Camden NJ
Annals of Camden No 3 - Old Ferries - Camden NJ Download In this age of inventions, improvements and ever-changing modes of transportation, the ferry boat is still an important factor in carrying the traveller across that "goodly and noble" river which forms the boundary between the two Quaker Colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Streets
Arlington Street
Arlington Street in South Camden ran one block and virtually disappeared after demolition in 2004. The street was home to working-class families, the General Gas Mantle factory (which caused thorium contamination), and became an EPA Superfund site in 1996.
Streets
Mickle Street
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
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The Camden National Bank
Excerpt from Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, N.J. 1890.
People
Amanda Alloway
Amanda Alloway, who was born in New Jersey in November 1843, had a notable life deeply intertwined with the historical tapestry of Camden, New Jersey.
People
Angelo Anthony Leveccia (aka Joey Allen)
JOEY ALLEN was the name that Angelo Anthony Levecchia boxed under from 1928 through 1943. He was born in Camden, New Jersey on November 12, 1912 to Anthony Levecchia and his wife, the former Anna Maria Onorati.
People
Charles L. Alcott
CHARLES L." SHAD" ALCOTT was born in New Jersey around 1857. The Census indicates July of 1858. Sorting him out can be confusing as there was a Charles M. Alcott, born February of 1857, who lived in Camden at the same time.
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Bernard A. Ahlberg
BERNARD ABRAHAM AHLBERG was born September 18, 1858, in Sweden. He came to America at the age of 18, and moved to Philadelphia shortly afterwards, where he remained until 1907, when he came to Camden.
Historical Accounts
Three Alarm Fire at the Ivy Hill Apartments
January 13, 2014 This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department.
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Pace of Cleanup Worries Residents
As crews demolished radiation-contaminated rowhomes on Arlington Street in February 2004, Waterfront South residents told officials they feared a redevelopment plan would drive them from their longtime homes.
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Angelo A. Levecchia, 79; boxer fought as 'Joey Allen'
EVESHAM—Services will be held Friday for Angelo A. Levecchia, a featherweight and light- weight boxer who fought as " Joey Allen.
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Polish Girl Scouts
A December 1957 Camden Courier-Post item about Girl Scout Troop 419 of St. Joseph's School, South Camden, which "adopted" an elderly woman at St. Mary's Home in Haddonfield as their "Grandmother" and threw her a birthday party.
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Private Plane Tears Into S. Camden Street
Pilot William A. Kreusser, 26, of 873 Fairview Street survived when his light monoplane tore down power lines and crashed in front of 843 Sylvan Street in South Camden on September 30, 1953.
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Man Held for Jury On Forgery Charge
Joseph S. Parker, 28, of Pine Street near 2nd, was held without bail for grand jury action on two counts of forgery after Detective Harry Kyler accused him of passing a $65 check and a $91 check.
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Grain Warehouse Swept by Blaze In So. Camden
A two-alarm fire sweeps a grain pit at Camden Grain Co. on Kossuth Street. The blaze, discovered at 4 a.m. by night watchman Caspar Krispin of 2046 Arlington Street, spreads smoke and fumes over a mile-wide area.
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Mayor, City Aides to Confer Monday on Weed Removal
Mayor Brunner called a July 1950 conference to coordinate city departments in clearing high grass and weeds from Camden — a campaign during which crews uncovered and destroyed more than 200 wild marijuana plants on a city lot at Chelton Avenue and Arlington Street.
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Youth Held in Attempt To Strangle Girl, 16, Quizzed on Murder
Camden Courier-Post, December 16, 1949: an 18-year-old South Camden youth is questioned in the garrote slaying of churchworker Richard H. Thompson after his arrest for attempting to strangle a 16-year-old girl.
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3 Bros. Markets
A July 1941 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for 3 Bros. Markets, listing four store locations — 7th & Vine and 3rd & Birch in North Camden, 9th & Pine and 6th & Walnut in South Camden — with weekend meat specials.
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Minister Collapses After Identifying Body of Daughter
International News Photos wire photo, August 8, 1939: the Reverend Walter Dworecki of the 4th Polish Baptist Church of Camden collapsed after identifying the body of his 18-year-old daughter at the Camden morgue. Detective Carr and Coroner Franklin Jackson aid the stricken father.
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Fire Prevention Broadcast in Polish in South Camden
An October 1936 Camden Courier-Post account of a Fire Prevention Week innovation suggested by the Polish-American Citizens Club: the city's "Voice of Safety" police car broadcast fire prevention messages in Polish as well as English in South Camden.
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Injured Players to be Feted by Dooley A.A.
All plans have been completed for the dance and floor show to be held Saturday by the Dooley Athletic Association , which will turn the proceeds over to the football players who were injured while playing with the South Camden club last Fall.
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'Buck' Sage Held as 'Hit-Runner'
Detainer Lodged Against Sportsman in Shooting of Waterhouse A detainer against Russell "Buck" Sage , held in Gloucester on a hit-run charge, was lodged last night by Camden police, who claim the South Camden sportsman "knows more than he has told" of the shooting of Harry "Gyp" Waterhouse.
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Old Stockton's Three Parks Kept Police Force on Jump
Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall East Camden used to have three parks "in the old days" — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.
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Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game
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.
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Gangster Shot as Racketeers Open War Here
John Doris, brother of the electrocuted Frank Doris, was arrested after Joseph Connors of Gloucester was shot in front of the American Restaurant, 506 Kaighn avenue, near Broadway; a police roundup netted 10 men held as material witnesses.
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Michaels Anxious to Beat Spearing
Riverside Youngster Out to Erase Cabana Defeat; Spearing Has Iron Jaw The Joe Spearing -Joey Michaels bout, which is slated as the semi- windup to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana fight at the Public Service Park on Friday night, is attracting nearly as much interest as the wind-up.
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Spearing May Give Michaels Real Tilt
East Camden Lightweight is Rapidly Developing Into Windup Performer Joe Spearing , of East Camden , who meets Joey Michaels, Riverside slugger in the eight-round semi-final to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana bout at Public Service Park on Friday night, is rapidly fighting his way into the windup class.
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Dealer Denies Thieves Took Slot Machine
Bertman Doubts His Story After He 'Shifts' Loot to Cigars Is liable to a fine on gambling machine Grand Jury Probe is Hinted by Judge - Reporter Takes Stand Lewis Shectman changed his story in police court today and declared that it was only a box of cigars, not a gambling machine that was stolen from his store, 708 Broadway, yesterday by two bandits.
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Isaac Shreve Dies, Veteran Policeman
Isaac M. Shreve, a Camden policeman for nearly forty years, was fatally stricken with apoplexy while answering a false-alarm call at Thirty-sixth and Federal streets in June 1926. He had served in the fire department, been shot by a robber twelve years earlier, and spent his last eighteen years on duty in East Camden.
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'Girl Farm' At Voodoo Cavern
Doc Hyghcock Brought Maids from Florida Got Them Jobs as Domestics at Eight Dollars Each—Used Half Dozen Cars P.O.
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Sergeant George Anderson Ill
Camden Courier - January 9, 1922 The many friends of Sergeant George W. Anderson of the Third District will be sorry indeed to learn that he is again seriously ill at his South Camde n home, 582 Clinton Street .
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North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked
Hundreds of Houses Ruined by Violent Wind and Rain and two Persons May Die; Streets Strewn with Debris Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night.
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Plenty of Mix Ups Caused by Blaze
A slight fire at the Dunn Oil Cloth Works in South Camden badly burned Charles Hampton, and Fire Chief Elfreth's runaway carriage horse wrecked the Story Furniture Company awning and ran over Harry Haines, a blind fife player, in August 1906.
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News and Incidents of a Day in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle street s, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets , had her clothing cut in strips.
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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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Hot Time in the Flats
Police raided a house at 624 Kaighn Avenue, one of the "New York Flats," and arrested proprietress Rosie Woolford and four others; arraigned before the Mayor, she pleaded not guilty and her bail was fixed at $800.