RAY STREET runs for one block, north from Pearl Street to Elm Street, between Borton Street and North 9th Street. The street first appears in city directories in 1890. As of 2006 there were no houses still standing on Ray Street. Ray Street is named for Mrs. "Ray" Cox, the wife of developer and builder Charles W. Cox, who built the homes on Ray Street. Coincidentally, Borton Street, which is parallel to Ray Street, was named after the best man at the Cox wedding, lawyer Joshua Borton. |
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500 block of Ray Street | |
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Ray Street 1924 Margaret Moos 1929 Vacant 1947 Anthony A. Sharp |
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Ray Street 1910s-1924 Robert McClellan 1929 Samuel Chadwick 1947 Mrs. Frances F. Lynskey 1969 James R. Sweeney |
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Ray Street
1924 No Listing |
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HOSPITAL CASES COOPER Lewis Raupp, 53, 833
North 6th Street, dog bite of right index finger WEST JERSEY Theresa
Marolda, 59, 1713 South 4th Street, cut
finger |
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Ray Street
1938 Cecelia Homan Camden
Courier-Post |
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Ray Street
1947 Rosezilla A. Roth |
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Ray Street
1924 WIlliam Newton |
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Ray Street 1924 Philip Genarrie 1929 Vacant 1947 Mrs. Emma Bateman |
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Ray Street
1915-1927 Camden Courier-Post William Hurlock
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Ray Street
1947 Daniel Hutchinson |
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Ray Street
1924 Vacant |
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Ray Street 1924 Catherine Murphy 1947 Russell M. Haines 1980 A Martinez |
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Ray Street 1924 Michael Ryan 1947 Vacant |
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Ray Street 1924 Martin Haller 1947 Mrs. Edna L. Foltz |
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Ray Street 1924 William Krapkie |
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Suspended Jail Sentence is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid Pleading non vult to charge of operating a 'numbers" headquarters raided by the police last July, Dominic Olivette, 28, of 444 Royden street, was fined $100 and given a suspended sentence of six months in criminal court yesterday. Olivette was arrested by a detail of police led by former Director of Public Safety Charles V. Dickinson and Lieutenant George Frost when they captured 17 men in the Royden street house. In police court the day following the raid Olivette was fined $100 by Judge Garfield Pancoast on charges of violating Section 422 of the city ordinances prohibiting disorderly persons from congregating in a building. Olivette paid the fine and was later indicted by the grand jury following an investigation by Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin. Judge Shay, in imposing the fine, refused Olivette's plea that he be allowed to pay the sum on installments. One other man charged with "numbers' writing was fined $100 with the privilege of paying at a $2 weekly rate. He is Herbert Lantry, 35, of 519 Ray street, arrested by Lieutenant Herbert Anderson November 26. He was held for the grand jury by Judge Pancoast when arraigned in police court. |
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Ray Street
1933 Herbert Lantry Camden Courier-Post |
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Ray Street 1947 Mrs. Mary Jeffries |
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Ray Street 1924 Mrs. Addie Farries 1929 Vacant 1947 Edward O. Logan |
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Ray Street
1924 Vacant |
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522
Ray Street
1924 William A. Elliot |
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Ray Street
1924 No Listing |
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Ray Street
1924 Samuel Chadwick |
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Ray Street
1924 Russell Dineen |
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Ray Street
1924 James Mills 1930 1947 No Return |
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Ray Street
1892 Nellie
Walker |
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Ray Street
1924 Walter E. Price |
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Ray Street
1899 Philadelphia
Inquirer |
529
Ray Street
1924 Adam J. Weiser |
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530
Ray Street
1924 Vacant |
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531 Ray Street | |
531
Ray Street
1924 Samuel A Cummings |
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Judge Pancoast Proves to 2I That Honesty Is Best Policy If
there’s anything Police Judge Pancoast
doesn’t like it's to have people trying to fool him, he said. So
yesterday Pancoast sent two alleged speakeasy inmates to jail for 6o
days and gave the confessed proprietor only 50 days. Emil Hatter,
35, of 829 Carpenter
Street, was arrested for violating the ordinance prohibiting
congregation of disorder1y persons on the premises by Lieutenant Herbert
Anderson Thursday. Hatter told the court that he was proprietor and
was in the illegal liquor business to provide for his two children. "That's
no excuse," said the judge, "you should provide for them
without breaking the law." He
fined Hatter $50 and sentenced him to 50
days when he was unable to
pay. The judge then turned to Edward
Mackay, 38, of 531 Ray Street,
and Alfred Brooks, 45, of 700 Pearl
Street [wrong address - PMC], who, Andersen said, were
drunk in Hatter's
establishment. Both
men admitted having a few drinks, elsewhere, but insisted they were
sober and that they did not buy the drinks from Hatter. "I'm
good and tired of having peop1e trying to fool me," said Pancoast.
"I don't know what they take me for. I'm going to end it, though,
by giving each of you 60 days." Unable to pay a fine of $100, George Young, 29, colored, 954 South Ninth Street, was sentenced to 100 days when he pleaded guilty to operating a "washboiler" still in violation of the city speakeasy ordinance. His wife, Ethel, 19, and Annie Fussel, 37, of 614 Chestnut Street, alleged inmates, were given 30 days each in default of $25 fines. |
531
Ray Street
1933 Edward Mackay Camden Courier-Post |
531
Ray Street
1947-1969 William F. WIltsey |
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532
Ray Street
1924 George Allebach |
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533
Ray Street
1924 Mrs. Ella Huff |
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BOY FOUND DRUNK GETS 30-DAY TERM A
16-year-old youth ,¥ho was found unconscious in a vacant house from the
effects of drinking liquor was sentenced to 30 days in jail yesterday by Police
Judge Garfield Pancoast. He
is Julius Carter, 1288 Van Hook
street, who was discovered Monday night
in a house at 534 Ray Street
by
Motorcycle Patrolman Earl
Wright.
"You
are certainly starting out well," Judge Pancoast told the boy.
"Where did you get the liquor?" "Some
fellows gave it to me," was the reply. "Well, I am going to stop you from starting that habit," was Judge Pancoast's answer. |
534
Ray Street
Camden Courier-Post |
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Ray Street
1924 No Listing |
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535
Ray Street
1924 Willis Hambrose |
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536
Ray Street
1924 Frank Elton |
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537
Ray Street
1924 Vacant |
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Ray Street
1890-1906 Carl Huth |
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539
Ray Street
1924
Vacant |
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540
Ray Street
1924 William J. Grant |
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541
Ray Street
1924 No Listing |
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543
Ray Street
1924 Mrs. Anna Giberson |
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545
Ray Street
1924 Howard Huff |
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547
Ray Street
1924 Leonard Seibert |
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Ray Street
1924 Henry Cowperthwaite |
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