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  • Indigent and Disabled Firemen

    Indigent and Disabled Firemen

    A bill has been introduced into the New jersey Legislature authorizing the establishment of a fund for the relief of indigent and disabled firemen in Camden, and their families, if in necessitous circumstances.

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  • Political Organization

    Political Organization

    Political Organization.—The Republicans of Camden have organized a Ward Association for South Ward, adopted a Constitution and By-laws…

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  • Conspiracy

    Conspiracy

    Sheriff Morgan has had William Abels, Frank Jones and John Mauderfield, arrested on the charge of conspiracy.

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  • The New Police Force

    The New Police Force

    On Thursday, the newly-appointed police force of Camden will receive their stars and uniforms, and enter upon the discharge of their duties.

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  • Paid Fire Department

    Paid Fire Department

    The salary of these men in the department is only $50 per annum, consequently they are necessitated to follow some other occupation.

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  • Over the River

    Over the River

    Hon, John H. Jones, mayor of Camden, has appointed the following gentlemen who will constitute the police force of Camden…

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  • Camden Home for Friendless Children Fund

    Camden Home for Friendless Children Fund

    The Camden Home for Friendless Children—The committee on collections for the Building Fund, have great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the following contributions:

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  • Cooper Hospital – 1876-11-01

    Cooper Hospital – 1876-11-01

    The approaches to this grand monument of the beneficence of the Coopers have been paved and placed in good condition. Indeed, a citizen returning after prolonged absence would scarcely recognize in the broad plateau containing the city hall and hospital the once open waste which marked the locality where they stand.

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  • The Same Police

    The Same Police

    This morning Mayor Morgan reappointed the old force. They are as follows: First ward – John McCormick and John Dunn. Chief of Police – W.H. Heinsing. Second ward – George Gardiner and Joseph Pike. Third ward – Isaac Hires and Samuel Hankinson. Fourth ward – George Anderson and George A. Tenner. Fifth ward – Patrick…

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  • Over the River

    Over the River

    IMPROVING Navigation. – The Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company are negotiating for the construction of a canal through the sandbar in the Delaware opposite Cooper’s Point, for the better navigation of thelr ferry boats. The channel is to be from fifty to seventy-five feet in width, eight feet deep at low water, and, according to…

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  • Over the River

    Over the River

    Philadelphia Inquirer – March 16, 1878 The annual meeting of Camden City Council was held last evening for the purpose of organizing for the years 1878-9.

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  • Tape Worm Removed Alive, Head and All

    Tape Worm Removed Alive, Head and All

    This is to certify that I was troubled over three years with a tap worm, and was recommended to Mrs. Fearn for a cure; she gave me two doses of Herb Medicine, two hours after I passed the whole worm alive, measuring twenty-three feet in length. The medicine produced no pain or any other unpleasant…

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  • Foul Play

    Foul Play

    The United States authorities deemed the case one that should be investigated, hence the arrest of the accused shortly after their arrival here from Norfolk.

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  • Murder at Sea

    Murder at Sea

    The arrested men have neither confessed nor denied the charge. They have been identified as belonging to the crew of the schooner.

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  • The Kittyhawk Mystery

    The Kittyhawk Mystery

    They took the body out of the water and reported to the station.

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  • Over the River

    Over the River

    Philadelphia Inquirer – April 9, 1880 An adjourned meeting of Camden City Council was held yesterday afternoon at half past four o’clock for the purpose of acting on and disposing of miscellaneous business, President Abels in the chair. On roll call nineteen members answered to their names.

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  • Executive Committee

    Executive Committee

    Executive Committee.—The following gentlemen have been selected the Republican Executive Committee of Camden county: First Ward, David Baird; Second, J. W. Morgan; Third, Edward Delacroix; Fourth, Chase A. Randall; Fifth, Christopher J. Morris, Jr; Sixth, Alex Milliette; Seventh, James Worrell; Eighth, Gabriel Johnson; Delaware township, Wm. Coles; Haddon, A. W. Clement; Stockton, Isaac Hinchman; Center,…

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  • Skated from Camden to Trenton

    Skated from Camden to Trenton

    HUMPHREYS. – George W. Humphreys, skated on Saturday from the mouth of Cooper’s Creek, Camden, to the Delaware bridge at Trenton, a distance of between 38 and 40 miles, in 3 hours and 40 minutes, beating the best time ever made on the Delaware—which was 4 hours—on February 19, 1875. He started at 1.35p.m., reached…

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  • Over the River

    Over the River

    On Saturday a further hearing in the case of Samuel Subers, charged by his wife with desertion, was commenced before Justice Ford W. Davis, of Camden. Several witnesses were examined, but without reaching a decision the case was adjourned until the morning.

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  • St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Officers Elected

    St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Officers Elected

    In St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Camden, the following officers were elected: Wardens—Abraham Browning, Marmaduke B. Taylor, Vestrymen—Maurice Browning, William E. Lafferty, Samuel H. Grey, Edward R. Shubrick, Jesse W. Starr, Joseph Fearon, William J. Sewell, H. Genet Taylor, James H. Carpenter, Henry C. Alexander, Robert F. S. Heath, Wilson H. Jenkins, Nathan F. Cowan, Harry…

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  • Camden County Republican Executive Committee

    Camden County Republican Executive Committee

    The Camden County Republican Executive Committee held a meeting at No. 210 Market street on Saturday. Chairman Charles A. Butts announced the following standing committees: Finance—Messrs, Stafford, Horner, and Boker. Printing—Bonsall, Blowe and Campbell. Campaign—Wagner, McKinley and Baird. Naturalization—Young, Stockton and Peters. William T. Sloan and Frank Green were appointed assistant secretaries. It was decided…

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  • Postal Inspector Hurt

    Postal Inspector Hurt

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 14, 1885 Post Office Agent Barrett was alarmed on Saturday by receiving a telegram requesting him to meet at the depot Postal Inspector William Abels, then on his way from Reading, and believed to have been attacked and badly hurt. Mr. Barrett accordingly met Mr, Abels at the 5.30 train, and…

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  • The Day Inquest

    The Day Inquest

    Coroner Green, of Woodbury, assisted by Prosecutor of the Pleas of Gloucester county, Belmont Perry, yesterday held at Paulsboro the inquest on the death of Henry Day, who was drowned off the sloop Ella on the 19th instant.

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  • Camden News

    Camden News

    The stockholders of the new Camden National Bank held another meeting yesterday and elected the following Board of Directors: Henry B. Anthoney [sic], Dr. George W. Bailey, Irvin O. Beatty, Howard M. Cooper, John Cooper, James Davis, Herbert C. Felton, Philip H. Fowler, George P. Haines, Zophar C. Howell, Zophar L. Howell, Rudolph W. Birdsall,…

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  • Election Frauds in Camden

    Election Frauds in Camden

    Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 7, 1885.—At a quarter after twelve o’clock today a warrant was sworn out before Magistrate Cassady, of Camden, for the arrest of Harry Gallagher, the democratic judge of the First precinct of the Seventh ward, on the charge of altering and falsifying the returns of his precinct in the interest of Branning.…

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  • New Camden Cemetery Purchase

    New Camden Cemetery Purchase

    In 1887, the trustees of Camden Cemetery held a meeting where a special committee suggested purchasing new burial ground land opposite to Evergreen Cemetery, priced at $700 per acre.

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  • Camden News

    Camden News

    Jail Warden Samuel Alcott, of Camden, yesterday took Daniel Quinn, a 10 year-old into the Reform school. He was sentenced to that institution last week by Judge Hugg for larceny.

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  • A New Player for the Browns?

    Charles Alcott, short stop of the Ashland club, signed a contract to play with the St. Louis club to-day. He played with Harry Lyons and was highly recommended by the latter. He is 30 years of age, and of strong, athletic build, a good runner and a hard hitter. He played with the famous Merretts…

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  • The Camden National Bank

    The Camden National Bank

    Through the courtesy of Cashier Martindale, a Post reporter was shown through the bank yesterday. The structure has a substantial and business-like appearance, being built of brick with brown stone trimmings. It fronts on the avenue and sets back a few feet front on the line of the street. On either side of the massive…

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  • Assaulting the Nurse

    Assaulting the Nurse

    Annie Eisenhardt, a nurse in the Cooper Hospital, in Camden, N.J., was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the second floor of the building, in the bathroom, about 1 o’clock this morning, after being murderously assaulted by a man, who apparently escaped from the building through the window, by means of a…

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  • The Camden Mystery.

    The Camden Mystery.

    Although it has been two days since Annie Eisenhardt, the night nurse of the Cooper Hospital, Camden, was murderously assaulted in the bath room of that institution, the police are as much mystified as to who the fiend was as ever.

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  • In White Chapel Style

    In White Chapel Style

    In White Chapel Style. Camden, NJ. January 26 – Miss Annie Eisenhart is the head nurse at the Cooper Hospital. Shortly after one o’clock this morning she was tending patients in the male ward on the second floor, and started to the bath-room for some hot water to wet a bandage. Just as she was…

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  • Night Nurse Will Recover

    Night Nurse Will Recover

    The physicians say that Annie Eisenhart, the night nurse in the Cooper hospital at Camden, who was assaulted, will recover. There is still no clew to her assailant. She has repeated her first story of the assault in substantially the same words. She accurately describes her assailant, and is confident she could identify him. She…

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  • The Camden Mystery

    The Camden Mystery

    Miss Annie Eisenhardt, the injured nurs [sic] at the Cooper Hospital, made an important admission yesterday to Doctor Farrett, the resident physician. She admits that the mysterious man who slashed her on Saturday morning had also criminally assaulted her. She steadfastly declared that she did not know who her assailant was.

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  • The Nurse Inflicted Her Own Injuries

    The Nurse Inflicted Her Own Injuries

    Philadelphia, Jan. 31—It is now the popular belief that the Camden hospital nurse, Annie Eisenhart, inflicted her own injuries. She adheres to her original statement that some strange man assaulted her, but there are many contradictions in her various statements. A physician who made an examination says she was not criminally assaulted.

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  • No Nearer Solution

    No Nearer Solution

    Prosecutor Jenkins, accompanied by Dr. Walsh, yesterday afternoon paid another visit to the Cooper Hospital and held a conversation with Miss Annie Eisenhardt, the nurse who was assaulted early last Saturday morning. The Prosecutor told her of the many conflicting parts in her story with an idea of abstracting from her a confession.

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  • Dots and Dashes

    Dots and Dashes

    It is now stated that Annie Eisenhardt, the head nurse at the hospital at Camden, N.J., who was found terribly cut and beaten, inflicted the injuries on herself while temporarily insane.

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  • Camden’s News Budget

    Camden’s News Budget

    Mrs. Priscella Green, a lady 30 years of age, living in the neighborhood of the West Jersey Railroad at Union, in Gloucester county, was run over by a train yesterday morning and literally cut to pieces.

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  • Lively Board of Ed Meeting

    Lively Board of Ed Meeting

    There was a lively time at the meeting of the Camden Board of Education last night. It was caused by the increasing of the janitors’ salaries, which was done after a debate of nearly an hour. The Property Committee was instructed to advertise for bids for a new school house at Tenth and Linden streets,…

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  • Young Republicans of Camden

    Young Republicans of Camden

    Colonel U. G, Lee, of the Young Republicans of Camden, has appointed the following staff officers; Adjutant, William D. Brown: quartermaster, W. Harry Smith; paymaster, Frank S. Helster; surgeon, Dr. Jones; quartermaster-sergeant, Robert Smith, The company officers elected are as follows: Company A – Captain, Frank C., Somers; first Lieutentant, William E. Andrews; second lieutenant,…

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  • A Camden Den Raided

    A Camden Den Raided

    Philadelphia Inquirer – July 28, 1890 Plenty of Liquor and As Faro Layout Secured by the Police A Murderous Negro Creates a Commotion Incendiaries and Work—Other News Across the Delaware The Camden police made another raid early yesterday morning. About 1 o’clock a detail consisting of Officers Pederick, Lee, Anderson, Horner, Baker, and Chief Dodd…

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  • New Buildings Going Up

    New Buildings Going Up

    Camden builders do not seem to be deterred by the fear of financial panic or an idea that the McKinley bill presages disaster in business.

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  • A Saloonkeeper’s Troubles

    A Saloonkeeper’s Troubles

    Unknown publication, circa 1892 Held on Four Criminal Charges. A Row in John Jones’ Saloon Results in His Arrest — Held for Court. John H. Jones, a saloonkeeper at Front and Birch streets, is in serious trouble, there being no less than four legal charges made against him before Justice Schmitz, who held him in…

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  • Walt Whitman’s Will

    Walt Whitman’s Will

    Walt Whitman’s will, the substance of which was published two weeks ago, was filed yesterday in the Camden County Surrogate’s office

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  • Over In Camden

    Over In Camden

    A 12-year-old son of Policeman Ripley was badly bitten by dogs. On complaint of his wife that he had removed shells from their child’s grave, Samuel B. F. Alcott was held under bail yesterday by Justice Quinn. Jaines Cullen, at one time a popular comedian on the boards of Fox’s Variety Theatre, Philadelphia, was before…

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  • A Murderous Shot Fired from Ambush

    A Murderous Shot Fired from Ambush

    There are some people who are flat-out evil, and apparently John Hill, the murderer in this instance, was one of them.

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  • Insubordination

    Insubordination

    The police board of Camdem [sic] has concluded the trial of Lieutenants Lee and Foster and Policemen Ralph Bond, William Repley and George Anderson, and found them guilty of insubordination. Their successors were, immediately elected. They are John A. Smith, Lieutenent First district; J. Harry: Neutze; Lieutenant Second district. On motion by Justice Paul Chief…

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  • Edward Jubb Obituary

    Edward Jubb Obituary

    Philadelphia Inquirer – May 10, 1894 JUBB. — Suddenly, on May 2, 1894, Edward, husband of Josephine Jubb, aged 34 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday afternoon, at 1 o’clock, from his late residence, 1084 Linden street, Camden, N. J. Interment at Evergreen.

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  • Under Heavy Wheels

    Under Heavy Wheels

    Philadelphia Inquirer – May 10, 1894 While Jumping on a Fire Truck an Ex-Fireman Lost His Life. Edward Jubb, a huckster, formerly an extra man in the Camden Fire Department, was run over and killed by Truck No. 2 at Second and Division streets, yesterday afternoon. The hook and ladder truck was on its way…

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  • “Post” Portraitures

    “Post” Portraitures

    Camden Post-Telegram – September 9, 1894 Rev. Father Kelly, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception has been transferred to Trenton.

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  • Sixth Ward Republican Club Candidates

    Sixth Ward Republican Club Candidates

    The committee of the Sixth Ward Republican club, appointed to make arrangements for a smoker and reception to the candidates, has arranged to have the affair come off on Wednesday night. The candidates for Assembly will be present, there will be good speakers in attendance, and a band of music to enliven the evening.

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  • Alcott Retaliates

    Alcott Retaliates

    There will probably be a lively meeting of the Americus Club, of Camden, tomorrow evening. The club is an organization of stalwart Democrats. Ex-Assemblyman William J. Thompson, owner of the Gloucester race-track, and Samuel B. F. Alcott, are members.

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  • Had a Lively Session

    Had a Lively Session

    The new Board of Freeholders of Camden county had a lively meeting yesterday. The appointment of jailers for the county prison was the bone of contention. A minority of the Court House Committee recommended the appointment of John Lee, in place of Abel Miller; Frank B. Vache, in place of D. M. Spence: George Lawson,…

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  • A Weeping Prisoner

    A Weeping Prisoner

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 8, 1895 A Self-Confessed Thief Was Aided by a Little Child. Weeping bitterly and hiding her face with her tear-soaked handkerchief, Agnes Monaghan, the young woman who was arrested at John Wanamaker’s store last Wednesday for shoplifting, was arraigned at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon. Since her arrest she has…

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  • Walt Whitman Surprised

    Walt Whitman Surprised

    oward sundown this evening, as Walt Whitman was half dozing over a pile of manuscript near a window in his little frame house in Camden, the jarring rattle of wheels startled the old man, and a smart chestnut horse drew a natty phaeton up to the door.

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  • In Jail with a Baby

    In Jail with a Baby

    Harriet Smith, who has often been before the court on the charge of selling policy, and who was pardoned after being sentenced to state’s prison, was again arrested last night, together with her daughter, Susan Kinsey, on the charge of selling policy. Mrs. Kinsey carried to jail with a six months’ old baby. Policeman George…

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  • Captain Hutchison Buried

    Captain Hutchison Buried

    Captain John G. Hutchison, the veteran superintendent of the West Jersey Ferry was laid at rest in Evergreen Cemetery this afternoon.

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  • County Collector Ivins Wiped Out

    County Collector Ivins Wiped Out

    County Collector Ivins wiped out every penny of the floating indebtedness of Camden county yesterday upon the payment of a $5000 note due the Central Trust Company.

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  • Camden Looks After Friendless Children

    Camden Looks After Friendless Children

    Philadelphia Inquirer – January 4, 1897 Camden’s generous citizens have responded to the Camden Home for Friendless Children.

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  • A Dog Was Shot

    A Dog Was Shot

    A dog, supposed to be mad, was shot by Policeman Anderson at Sixth and Mickle streets yesterday, after the animal had terrorized the neighborhood.

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  • Serious Charges by Defeated Candidate

    Serious Charges by Defeated Candidate

    Another move was made yesterday by counsel for Freedom C. Lippincott, the Committee of One Hundred contestant for the Camden City Treasurership, when petitions were presented to Justice Garrison for a regular contest. He granted a hearing in the matter to take place before Judge Miller on July 10. George G. Felton holds the City…

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  • Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden

    Two Men Shot in a Race Riot in Camden

    Philadelphia Inquirer – July 6, 1897 Both Victims Are Colored and One Is Probably Fatally Wounded. POLICE USED PISTOLS They Were Fired at When They Tried to Arrest the Fighters, “Crap” Game Started the Trouble. In a race riot between white and colored men in South Camden last evening two colored men were shot. One…

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  • Camden’s Tragedy Still A Mystery

    Camden’s Tragedy Still A Mystery

    Camden’s double murder mystery remains unsolved. The rewards for the apprehension of the murderer now amount to $1,000.

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  • Alleged Threat to Shoot

    Alleged Threat to Shoot

    Philadelphia Inquirer – October 18, 1897 William Lore was arrested in Stockton late Saturday night, charged with threatening to Shoot Israel Adams, proprietor of a saloon on Federal street.

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  • Firemen Own Stockton

    Firemen Own Stockton

    Philadelphia Inquirer – November 26, 1897 Representative firemen from New Jersey and Pennsylvania owned the Town of Stockton yesterday and the Knights of the Golden Eagle joined them in the annual Thanksgiving demonstration of the Volunteer Fire Department of the town.

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  • Death Lurked on a Camden Street

    Death Lurked on a Camden Street

    Deadly electric wires claimed a victim in Camden last evening. Harry J. Schaefer, a silk spinner, 22 years old. of 608 Vine street, in that city, was shocked to death by a live wire on Tenth street above Market about 6 o’clock. Schaefer was crossing Tenth street, laughing and talking with a friend named Long,…

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  • Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Company Elects Officers

    Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Company Elects Officers

    The Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Company, Camden’s leading financial institution, has elected these officers: President, William C. Dayton; vice-president, Alexander C. Wood; treasurer, George W. Wakefield; trust officer, Benjamin C. Reeve; solicitor, Samuel H. Grey.

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  • Charles L. Alcott Obituary

    Charles L. Alcott Obituary

    ALCOTT – On September 24. 1898, Della, wife of Charles L. Alcott, aged 46 years. The relatives and friends of the family, also members of Rising Star Lodge, No. 5, Order of the Shepherds of Bethlehem, of Camden, N. J.. are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services on Wednesday afternoon, September 28, at 2…

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  • Death of John H. Dialogue

    Death of John H. Dialogue

    John H. Dialogue the ship builder of worldwide renown died yesterday afternoon at his residence. Heart disease was the cause of death.

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  • Drunks Were Scarce

    Drunks Were Scarce

    Drunks were scarce in this city Saturday and yesterday and as a result the police had little to do. Richard Fowler, a respectable looking old gentleman who claimed Philadelphia as his home, was one of the unfortunate. He was picked up by Officer Hovis on Saturday, being to drunk to care for himself. He was…

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  • Suit for $9000 Damages

    Suit for $9000 Damages

    Suit for $9000 damages was instituted by Lawyer George Bacon yesterday against the Camden National Bank for alleged false arrest of one of his clients.

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  • Over in Camden

    Over in Camden

    Among the latest victims of the grip in Camden are Mayor Hatch, Chief of Police Foster, City Clerk Worry Kramer, former City Counsel J. Wiliard Morgan, Charles R. Baron, and Policemen George Cooper, Harry Miller, James Ware and George Anderson.

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  • Before the Recorder

    Before the Recorder

    James Hanley, a sexuageneric found stiff on a step, sentence suspended; Henry Myers, a Trenton corsalve fakir with his nose in court plaster chancery, twenty days for insulting a woman, and James Sharp, a young man fired out of the Sixth ward ball and who then tried to lick Policeman George Anderson, fined $3.75. The…

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  • 400 Loaves of Bread

    400 Loaves of Bread

    The Sixth Ward Republican Club will give out 400 loaves of bread from the headquarters at 908 Broadway, between 10 and 11 o’clock this morning. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will distribute 200 loaves in the afternoon at the W. C. T. U. Hall, on Benson street above Fourth.

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  • Acting Captain of Police Robert Abbott Gets New Badge

    Acting Captain of Police Robert Abbott Gets New Badge

    Camden Daily Courier – April 21, 1899 Acting Captain of Police Robert Abbott now wears a Camden badge and is designated as No. 70.

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  • In Police Dragnet

    In Police Dragnet

    The Camden police yesterday raided the alleged poolroom at 25 South Third street, where Walter H. Keefer, former manager of the Merchantville Light and Power Company, claims he lost $254, belonging to his employers. Seven-men were captured in the raid, including W. Harry Getty and Charles Metz, who were committed in default of $1500 bail…

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  • Bluecoats For East End

    Bluecoats For East End

    Camden Daily Courier – May 19, 1899 Captain Albert will have charge of the new district – Former Chief Abbott among the Batch of new appointees.

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  • Cross Cooper’s Creek

    Cross Cooper’s Creek

    Camden Daily Courier – May 19, 1899 This community will be shocked to know of the death of Mrs. Beulah Abbott, wife of Benjamin Abbott, and mother of Town Clerk William S. Abbott and Chief Robert Abbott.

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  • Engagement – Archer/Chaidlee

    Engagement – Archer/Chaidlee

    The engagement has been announced of Attorney F. Morse Archer and Miss Bessie M. Chaidlee, of Bridgesburg, Pa.

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  • William Abels Obituary

    William Abels Obituary

    Philadelphia Inquirer – June 21, 1899 ABELS – At Interlaken, NJ on June 17, 1899, William Abels. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, from the residence of his son-in-law, Joseph H. Sweeten, No. 104 North Sixth street, Camden, N.J. Interment private, at…

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  • Mystery of a Swamp

    Mystery of a Swamp

    Harrisburg Patriot – July 17, 1899 Philadelphia, July 16—Walter S. Jones, colored, is locked up in Camden Jail under a chain of weird circumstances. On Friday night a horse and empty wagon were found standing in a clump of bushes near Seventeenth and Mickle streets, a sparsely settled part of Camden’s annexed district. Almost simultaneous…

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  • Over In Camden

    Over In Camden

    The fourth annual ball of the Sixth Ward Republican Club will be held at Turner Hall next Monday evening.

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  • Police in a Church

    Police in a Church

    Chief of Police John Foster, Captains Stanley, Boyle and Alberts, seventy policemen and Colonel D. B. Murphy, the police drill instructor, marched in a body from the Third Regiment Armory in Camden to Broadway M. E. Church last evening to attend divine service. A number of city firemen, trolley conductors and motormen were also in…

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  • Automobiles Tabooed

    Automobiles Tabooed

    At a meeting of the Camden County board of freeholders steps were taken looking to the exclusion of automobiles from roads in the county.

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  • Camden’s Pride Parades Before City’s People

    With a line up that could not be surpassed by the famous “Broadway Squad” of New York, Camden’s policemen, or most of them, turned out in review yesterday. The military carriage of the men excited much and favorable comment, especially among those who were not aware that the men have been drilled every week for…

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  • She Dared Men to Touch the “Pants”

    She Dared Men to Touch the “Pants”

    She had a brazen dare while flourishing a revolver and exclaiming, “I’ll kill the first man who touches those pants; this is fair warning to everybody, for I mean what I say!”

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  • Four Tossed from an Automobile

    Four Tossed from an Automobile

    Camden Letter Carrier’s Machine Ran Away and Its Occupants Were Cut and Bruised

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  • Louise Hogan Gets Thirty Days

    Louise Hogan Gets Thirty Days

    Camden Post-Telegram – December 19, 1902 Louise Hogan was again in Police Court this morning – this time a defendant herself. After the release yesterday of Howard Starn, who Miss Hogan had accused of assault, she proceeded to get drunk. She succeeded and was arrested by Policeman Abbott. The Recorder gave her thirty days.

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  • Camden Man Shot Lincoln’s Slayer

    Camden Man Shot Lincoln’s Slayer

    Philadelphia Inquirer – February 13, 1903 Boston Corbett, Who Killed Wilkes Booth, Remembered by Many Old Residents of the City.

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  • Brief News Notes

    Brief News Notes

    Camden Daily Courier – March 31, 1903 Benjamin P. Abbott, father of former Clerk of the Town of Stockton William S. Abbott and Policeman Robert Abbott, died last night after a long illness. Deceased was well well known in the East Side. In the old township days he held the office of Township Committeeman and…

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  • Benjamin Abbott Dead

    Benjamin Abbott Dead

    Camden Post-Telegram – March 31, 1903 Benjamin P. Abbott, father of former Clerk of the Town of Stockton William S. Abbott and Policeman Robert Abbott, died last night after a long illness. Deceased was well well known in the East Side. In the old township days he held the office of Township Committeeman and always…

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  • Police Stopped Sunday Amusements

    Police Stopped Sunday Amusements

    The Hebrew Social and Educational Club, of Camden, gave an outing at Hoosey’s Grove, Camden’s East Side, yesterday. A large number of persons were present from all parts of Camden and Philadelphia. Children were enjoying themselves immensely in swings and other amusements when Captain of Police Albert served notice that the society was violating the…

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  • First Ward Club Had a Jolly Time

    First Ward Club Had a Jolly Time

    Hospitality was rampant at the First Ward Young Republican Club last night. The occasion was the annual meeting. Following the election of officers there was a delightful entertainment and a splendid feast, – the honors being done by Captain William E. Alberts, simply resplendent facially in his new bunch of whiskers; Recorder O, Glen Stackhouse,…

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  • Shipbuilders Home Building and Loan Association

    Shipbuilders Home Building and Loan Association

    A number of the officials and employes [sic] of the New York Shipbuiling [sic] Company have organized the Shipbuilders’ Home Building and Loan Association by the election of the following officers: President, William J. Bradley; vice president, Thomas J. Moore; secretary, John M. Kelly [sic]; treasurer, Central Trust Company; solicitor, E. G. C. Bleakly. The…

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  • New Camden Brewery

    New Camden Brewery

    Joseph Baumgartner, of Sioux City, Ia., has purchased two acres of land at Bulson street and Chelten avenue, Camden, N. J., from the Camden Manufacturers’ Land Company for $20,000, upon which he intends to build a modern brewing plant.

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  • The Casson Brothers

    The Casson Brothers

    The Casson Brothers, a clever acrobatic team made of Vincent A. Tydeman and William Dool, have secured an engagement in Atlantic City.

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  • East Side Notes

    East Side Notes

    Firemen “Bobby” Gick, Scott, Franklin, Israel Adams, and William Randall and Adam Hinkle, who went on a fishing trip down the bay to Ship John Light, on board the sloop yacht, William B. Hill, have returned with a good coat of tan and plenty of the denizens of the deep, including a big mess of…

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  • Eighteen New Firemen Named

    Eighteen New Firemen Named

    City Council’s Fire Committee last night named 18 new firemen, Sixteen of these men Will not go on duty until July 1 next, at which time the new fire house will be ready for service, while the other two, who were named to fill vacancies, will begin duty the first of next year.

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  • Sixteen Appointed to Fire Department

    Sixteen Appointed to Fire Department

    On account of the illness of its chairman, Dr. Frank Neall Robinson, the fire committee of City Council last night met at Dr. Robinson’s residence, 518 Linden street. The principal object of the meeting was to recommend names for additional appointments in the Fire Department. Among the sixteen fortunate ones were Rollo Jones and Charles…

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  • More Firemen For Camden

    More Firemen For Camden

    The Fire Committee of Camden City Council have appointed the following firemen: Charles Cook. James, White, Harry Anderson, Samuel Sheer, Edward Finley, Martin Carrigan, Joseph Daly, Joseph Ernest, Neth Morrell, Willian Buzine, Charles Sturgis, Samuel T. Whitezell, Ephraim T. Davis, J. Oscar Till, J. H. Vickers, Frederick Morse. Rollo Jones and William Miller. Jones and…

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