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Fire officials inspect burned 14th floor county offices after the February 1982 City Hall fire
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Inspecting damage

Fire officials inspect 14th floor offices after an early morning blaze damaged two county offices in February 1982; the fire knocked radio station WSSJ off the air for about an hour.

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Front-page Camden Courier-Post story "4-alarm fire hits City Hall" with a photo of firefighters in the burned 14th floor offices, stitched to its continuation "4-alarm fire ravages 2 county offices in City Hall" from page 9A
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4-alarm fire hits City Hall

Camden Courier-Post, February 10, 1982: a four-alarm fire damaged county offices on the 14th floor of Camden City Hall; Battalion Chief John Giuliano and Capt. John Dimaggio are quoted.

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Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1962: rescue boat dragging the Delaware River for a drowned boy at Pyne Poynt, with the story
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Camden Boy Drowns Off Pyne Poynt

Nine-year-old Eugene Thornton of 539 Birch Street drowned in the Delaware River at Pyne Poynt after falling or being pushed from the pilings; Camden fire department boat crews recovered his body.

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Newspaper clipping with the headline Murray Refuses Bid for Assembly
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Murray Refuses Bid for Assembly

Charles T. Murray, a Camden County coroner from 1926 to 1928 and partner with his father in Joseph H. Murray & Son, declined invitations from both Republican factions to run for the House of Assembly, preferring to seek the coroner's office again.

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Camden Youth Honored in Army Medical School, Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1930
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Camden Youth Honored in Army Medical School

George A. Oberst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Oberst of 1253 Princess Avenue, completed the radiography course at the Army Medical College, Walter Reed General Hospital, and was to serve as Chief Radiographer at Fort Totten. Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1930.

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WCAM Players article about George A. Oberst's radio drama company, Courier-Post, January 27, 1928 (part 1)
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WCAM Players Back Little Theater Idea

The WCAM Players, a radio drama company directed by George A. Oberst of 1253 Princess Avenue, followed "It Was Christmas" with "Plain Jane" and set out to further the Little Theatre Movement in South Jersey. Camden Courier-Post, January 27, 1928.

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