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43 Camden Recruits Thrive In Chill Conservation Camp

Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.

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Thieves Take cigars in Sons of Italy Hall

Camden Courier-Post - June 23, 1933 A black leather pocketbook containing $5.50, papers and house keys, was stolen Wednesday night from the parked automobile of Violet Byers, 413 Broadway , on Park Boulevard near Kaighn Avenue .

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Roxie's Pals Confess
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Roxie's Pals Confess

Pair Held With Camden Boxer Admit Landisville Robbery - Fifth Man Hunted With four suspects, including Roxie Allen , Camden welterweight boxer, still held without bail, the State Police today continued their search for the fifth bandit in the $200 holdup of a Landisville poolroom Sunday afternoon.

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Camden Morning Post clipping, December 8, 1930: Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup, with a portrait of Allen
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Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup

Roxie Allen, Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and Carmen Passarella of 1227 Broadway were arrested and identified by police as two of four men who held up a craps game at Landisville, where the loot was said to total between $150 and $200.

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Newspaper clipping "Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia," Courier-Post, June 27, 1929.
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Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia

More than 1500 guests attended the reception at the Sons of Italy Hall after Miss Jennie Maroccia of South Third Street married Louis Cavallo of 314 Kaighn Avenue at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.

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Camden Courier-Post, April 2, 1928 - Man and Wife Saved by Passing Firemen
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Man and Wife Saved by Passing Firemen

Trapped over a blazing butcher shop on Kaighn Avenue, a man and wife were carried down a ladder by Engine Company 9 firemen returning from one of four serious fires that called out every piece of apparatus in Camden.

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Camden Courier-Post, January 9, 1928, Marine Terminal Foundation Solid
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Marine Terminal Foundation Solid

Camden's new $2,000,000 marine terminal will rest on the strongest possible foundation, according to a preliminary report made today by Thomas J. Daley, city engineer, on the results of driving test piles for the project about 1,000 feet south of Clinton street.

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Firemen pour water on burning tire warehouse, Division Street, Camden, July 27, 1925
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Four Firemen Are Trapped in Collapse of Brick Wall

A Camden Evening Courier report of July 27, 1925 on a spectacular fire at the Bantivoglio & Son junk warehouse at 252 Division Street, in which a collapsing brick wall buried four firemen of Engine Company No. 7, including Captain Watkin.

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Former Detective Murry Drops Dead In Street

George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.

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Raid Alleged Disorderly Houses newspaper clipping
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Raid Alleged Disorderly Houses

Captain Stanley and a squad made two more raids near Third and Spruce Streets, descending on the places of Mamie Tinsey at 240 Spruce Street and Josephine Quinn at 807 Locust Street.

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Seven Raids Disturb Camden Churchgoers newspaper clipping, page 1
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Seven Raids Disturb Camden Churchgoers

Camden police made seven simultaneous raids in the Tenderloin district on a Sunday morning, arresting twenty-three persons accused of selling liquor without a license. The raids were directed by Police Captain Arthur Stanley.

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Court Dismisses Gambling Charge, Camden Post-Telegram, April 9, 1912
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Court Dismisses Gambling Charge

A Camden Post-Telegram account of the April 1912 police raids on two alleged South Camden gambling houses. Eli Johnson and Daniel Bussey were discharged or fined; among those caught at 829 Locust Street was former prize fighter Walter "Kentucky Rosebud" Edgerton.

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Camden Post-Telegram, April 27, 1911, Margaret Oberst Bride of Mr. West
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Margaret Oberst Bride of Mr. West

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.

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Columbus Day in Camden
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Columbus Day in Camden

Columbus Day was observed in Camden with a parade and ball by the Italian Knights of Columbus at the First Italian Republican League, 913 South Fourth Street, and a banquet at Columbus Hall.

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Two Raids in Camden newspaper clipping
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Two Raids in Camden

Camden police raided two alleged disorderly houses: Captain Stanley took Charles Lee's place at Third and Spruce Streets, known as "The Big Ship," while Captain Boyle raided 2 Fogarty Avenue.

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News of a Day in the City of Camden
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News of a Day in the City of Camden

Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton.

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Catholics Lay Corner-Stone of a New Parochial School newspaper clipping, page 1
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Catholics Lay Corner-Stone of a New Parochial School

The corner-stone of the new parochial school of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church at St. John and Spruce Streets was laid before several hundred people; the societies marched to the place headed by a platoon of police under Captain Arthur Stanley.

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Camden Police Make Raids newspaper clipping
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Camden Police Make Raids

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.

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Camden Daily Courier front page, July 7, 1902: Col. Felton Committed Suicide in His Office
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Col. Felton Committed Suicide in His Office

Col. George G. Felton, real estate dealer and former City Treasurer, was found dead of gas in his office in the Felton building at Second and Federal streets. The same Camden Daily Courier column reported the sudden death of Walter C. Fish, florist of Broadway and Spruce streets.

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Camden News Notes newspaper clipping
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Camden News Notes — August 11, 1901

A column of Camden briefs for August 11, 1901, including a report that Police Captain Stanley was in a head-on trolley collision at Brigantine Beach and escaped with a bad shaking up.

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Bitter Primary Elections newspaper clipping
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Bitter Primary Elections

Camden's Republican primary elections of February 1899 turned violent in the Seventh Ward, where the Blowite and Hansonite factions fought at the polls. Mayor Hatch sent Captains Stanley and Boyle with seventeen policemen, but the rows continued and a patrolman was badly beaten.

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123 Arch Street - John Hertlein and 329 Arch Street - Rumpf - Camden Post January 29 1878
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Malt License

An 1897 Camden Post-Telegram report of the malt-drink licenses granted and refused by the Court of Common Pleas, including Henry Garren at 27 South 4th Street.

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Mary E. Gibbs arrested — Joint Alley, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 27, 1896
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Mary E. Gibbs Arrested

Mary E. Gibbs of Joint Alley was jailed in December 1896, charged with cutting William E. Allison of 232 Spruce Street during a knife quarrel.

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Bad Man Derrickson, Camden Post, July 24, 1895
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Bad Man Derrickson

'Sweeney' Derrickson arrested on Baxter Street for shooting at Charles Burton three times; Sergeant Harvey disarms the gunman after a chase.

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Historical Accounts

The Year 1833 - Camden, NJ

That section of the city commonly known as Fettersville was purchased by Richard Fetters in 1833 from Charity and Grace Kaighn and embraced the land lying between Line and Cherry Streets, extending from Third Street to the Delaware River.

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