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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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Spruce Street
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The Love Affairs of the Official Shiner
Ernest Waples, 'official bootblack,' sentenced to one year in State Prison for assaulting Julia Mason; his love letters intercepted and read in court.
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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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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
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
'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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Frank Yeager Discharged
Frank Yeager, arrested for selling liquor to minors at Locust and Spruce Streets, was discharged by Mayor Pratt, who found he had bought the saloon from Christian Eppinger but the license had not been transferred.
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Boy Attacked by Dog on Spruce Street
A ferocious dog nearly killed six-year-old Walter Vanstavern on Spruce Street near South 7th Street; Coroner H. H. Davis took charge of the case.
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Building Boom in Camden
James Cox has begun six two-story brick houses on Cox Street, below Second, as part of a broader construction boom across Camden. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1888.
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.