Baird Avenue, named for Camden businessman, political leader and one-time U.S. Senator David Baird Sr., was laid out early in the 20th century as part of the development of Camden's Parkside neighborhood. It is one of the three main roads in Parkside. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, running diagonally in a northerly direction, crossing Park Avenue at Camden High School and Farnham Park. From there Baird Avenue crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Avenue, entering East Camden, where it runs straight through across Marlton Avenue to its terminus, the intersection of Baird Avenue, Federal Street, and 27th Street — arguably the heart of East Camden.
The street was known as Baird Avenue when originally laid out in the 1900s. Homes began to appear on Baird Avenue after 1906, and there were a few empty lots in the 1500 block as late as 1924, and the Parkside blocks were referred to as Baird Avenue for many years. The East Camden side, above the Cooper River, was laid out by 1924, and from the beginning was called Baird Avenue. No homes stood on the East Camden blocks of Baird Avenue in 1924.
Baird Avenue was the home of many of Camden's most prominent citizens, from all walks of life — business, law, religion, and even organized crime.
Emmanuel A. Pearl & Family; Emmanuel A. 'Manny' & Reba Pearl; Rosalie Pearl; Evelyn Pearl; Burton L. Pearl
Hiram E. Budd, World War II veteran — 1407 Baird AvenueHiram E. BuddIsaac W. Budd, World War II veteran — 1407 Baird Avenue1453–1455 Baird Avenue — August 2, 20061459–1461 Baird Avenue — August 2, 20061465–1467 Baird Avenue — August 2, 20061471–1473 Baird Avenue — August 2, 2006Ben Lawton Sr. — 1453 Baird Avenue, 1913–1922 — Camden Courier-Post, February 23, 1938Thomas J. Daley Jr., city engineer — 1471 Baird Avenue, 1924–1947
1500 Block of Baird Boulevard
1500 Baird Avenue
1500 Baird Avenue — 1500 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1917
Thomas F. McGrath & Family; Thomas F. & Elizabeth McGrath; William McGrath
Reiter Apartments: 1A Otto Reiter, 1B Elias Klein, 2A Ralph M. Pinsky, 2B William R. Johnston, 3A Mrs. Nellie Swope, 3B Grace E. Hankins
1532 Baird Avenue
1532 Baird Avenue — 1500 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1924
Not Built
1947
Victor Levinson. Damaged by fire September 27, 2011
1501–1503 Baird Avenue — August 2, 2006Herman Z. Cutler — 1501 Baird AvenueDavid Herman — 1501 Baird AvenueJacob Naden — 1503 Baird AvenueDan's Metal Products, 1504 Baird Avenue — Camden Courier-Post, November 11, 1958View transcription
Kaighns Ave. Shop Looted of Tools
Copper piping and tools of undetermined value was stolen Friday from Dan's Metal Products, 318 Kaighns ave., it was disclosed today by police.
Daniel Greenstein, of 1504 Baird ave., the proprietor, told police he discovered the theft at 4:30 p.m. Friday. He said his tools were used to remove plumbing fixtures and copper pipes.
An electric drill and a sanding machine valued at $55 was included in the loot, according to Greenstein. He said entry was gained through a cellar door which had been forced open.
1507–1509 Baird Avenue — August 2, 20061507–1509 Baird Avenue — August 2, 2006 (second view)Peter B. Carter — 1507 Baird AvenueCantor Louis J. Herman — 1507 Baird Avenue1507 Baird Avenue — 19621513–1515 Baird Avenue — August 2, 20061514 Baird Avenue — Fire damage, September 29, 20111514 Baird Avenue — Fire damage, September 29, 2011 (second view)Dr. David Keyser — 1518 Baird Avenue1518 Baird Avenue — September 29, 20111519–1521 Baird Avenue — August 2, 20061524–1526 Baird Avenue — September 29, 20111525 Baird Avenue — August 2, 20061530–1532 Baird Avenue (Reiter Apartments) — September 29, 20111530–1532 Baird Avenue — September 29, 2011 (second view)1531 Baird Avenue (Reiter Apartments) — August 2, 20061532 Baird Avenue — Fire damage, September 29, 20111532 Baird Avenue — Fire damage, September 29, 2011 (second view)1532 Baird Avenue — Fire damage, September 29, 2011 (third view)1532 Baird Avenue — Fire damage, September 29, 2011 (fourth view)1532 Baird Avenue — Fire damage, September 29, 2011 (fifth view)
Intersection of Baird Avenue & Park Avenue
Intersection of Baird Avenue & Park Avenue — 1949Camden High School — circa 1920 postcard — Northwest corner of Baird Avenue & Park Avenue
Baird Avenue Crosses the Cooper River
Looking northeast at Baird Avenue Bridge from Farnham Park — March 1960 — Photo by Louis MorrisLooking northwest at Baird Avenue Bridge from Farnham Park — the Oasis Motel visible at upper right — March 1960 — Photo by Louis Morris
1900 Block of Baird Boulevard
1904 Baird Avenue
1904 Baird Avenue — 1900 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Camden Athletic Grounds; later Oasis Motel (1960s–1990s)
Intersection of Admiral Wilson Avenue & Baird Avenue
Construction of the bridge and cloverleaf at Admiral Wilson Avenue and Baird Avenue — August 1948
The construction of the bridge and cloverleaf at Admiral Wilson Avenue in August 1948, together with earlier commercial development, ended the prospects for two streets that had been planned — Woolwich Street and Maplewood Street — which were to run parallel to Randolph Street.
Aerial view of East Camden, July 1926 — "Bridge Avenue Estates" ad by the Suburban Home Realty Company
This aerial view of East Camden was published in July 1926 as a "Bridge Avenue Estates" advertisement by the Suburban Home Realty Company, located at 325 Market Street in Camden and run by Edward S. Miller. Baird Avenue appears as the horizontal dotted line across the upper part of the picture; no homes had yet been built on Baird when the photo was taken.
2201–2207 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082205–2211 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082205–2213 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082207–2213 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082207–2213 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 2008 (second view)2207–2213 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 2008 (third view)
2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
2201 Baird Boulevard
2201 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Leon Nurock
1947
Albert L. Cohn
2202 Baird Boulevard
2202 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Irving Berlin
2203 Baird Boulevard
2203 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
J. Moles
2204 Baird Boulevard
2204 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Rudolf C. Swanson
2205 Baird Boulevard
2205 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Jules Chadwin
1947
Alice Solomon
2206 Baird Boulevard
2206 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Samuel Epstein
2207 Baird Boulevard
2207 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Angelo DePersia
1947
Louis Frader
2208 Baird Boulevard
2208 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Philip Hankin
2209 Baird Boulevard
2209 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
George W. McFarland
1947
George Goldberg
2210 Baird Boulevard
2210 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Fred M. Seitzinger
2211 Baird Boulevard
2211 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Herbert A. Stoolman
1947
Joseph Hurwitz
2212 Baird Boulevard
2212 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Mae Mitnek
2213 Baird Boulevard
2213 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Rubin Ginsburg
1947
Harry Plasky
2214 Baird Boulevard
2214 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
2216 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
John A. Holm
2218 Baird Boulevard
2218 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Leo Sherman
2220 Baird Boulevard
2220 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Mrs. Augusta Liberman
2252 Baird Boulevard
2252 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Martin Segal
2254 Baird Boulevard
2254 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Norman Silverman
2256 Baird Boulevard
2256 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1962
Harry Schwartz
2258 Baird Boulevard
2258 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Jacob Rothman
1947
Bernard Solotoff
2260 Baird Boulevard
2260 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
George Pearl
2262 Baird Boulevard
2262 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Vacant
2264 Baird Boulevard
2264 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Jacob Goodman
2266 Baird Boulevard
2266 Baird Boulevard — 2200 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Jacob Rosen
Maurice Brahen, World War II veteran — 2214 Baird Boulevard2301–2307 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082301–2309 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082305–2311 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082305–2313 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 20082305–2315 Baird Boulevard — February 11, 2008
2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
2301 Baird Boulevard
2301 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Simon Friedman
2302 Baird Boulevard
2302 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Harry Cohen
2303 Baird Boulevard
2303 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Raymond Arllen
1947
Frances M. Connelly
2304 Baird Boulevard
2304 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Joseph Cutler
2305 Baird Boulevard
2305 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Jesse J. Jones
1947
Mrs. Jessie I. Elder
2306 Baird Boulevard
2306 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Sidney Friedman
2307 Baird Boulevard
2307 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Abraham L. Pellicoff
1947
Albert Schneyer
2308 Baird Boulevard
2308 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Jack J. Gautz
2309 Baird Boulevard
2309 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Robert L. Sirio
1947
Frank J. Terranova
2311 Baird Boulevard
2311 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Joseph D. Markham
1947
Harry Dinerman
2312 Baird Boulevard
2312 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Abraham Lichtman
2313 Baird Boulevard
2313 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Wilbur J. Hayes
2314 Baird Boulevard
2314 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Theo Deninberg
2315 Baird Boulevard
2315 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Not Listed
2316 Baird Boulevard
2316 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Albert Fink
2318 Baird Boulevard
2318 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Harry A. Kerr
2320 Baird Boulevard
2320 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Thomas Naden
2351 Baird Boulevard
2351 Baird Boulevard — 2300 Block of Baird Boulevard
2405 Baird Boulevard — 2400 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
John C. Cawaman
1950s–1960s
Albert M. Zwick
2407 Baird Boulevard
2407 Baird Boulevard — 2400 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947–1960s
Nicholas Martella
2411 Baird Boulevard
2411 Baird Boulevard — 2400 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Frank A. Bantivoglio
1948–1968
Dr. S. Marvin Bell DDS; Dr. Simon Marvin Bell & Jeanette Bell; Larry Bell; Steven Bell
2413 Baird Boulevard
2413 Baird Boulevard — 2400 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947–1960s
Edward Markowitz
2415 Baird Boulevard
2415 Baird Boulevard — 2400 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Sidney Leader
2417 Baird Boulevard
2417 Baird Boulevard — 2400 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Harry Antelman
1950s–1960s
Samuel Lukoff
2418 Baird Boulevard
2418 Baird Boulevard — 2400 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1955
Boulevard Delicatessen
Boulevard Delicatessen — 2418 Baird Boulevard — New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages, 1955
Intersection of Marlton Avenue & Baird Boulevard
Marlton Avenue — circa 1940Esso service station — Baird Boulevard at Marlton AvenueEsso service station — Baird Boulevard at Marlton Avenue (second view)2519–2525 Baird Boulevard — June 29, 2006
2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
2501 Baird Boulevard
2501 Baird Boulevard — 2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
David Weiner, gas station
2519 Baird Boulevard
2519 Baird Boulevard — 2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Vacant
2521 Baird Boulevard
2521 Baird Boulevard — 2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
2603 Baird Boulevard — 2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1920s–1930s
Lewis Liberman
1947
Aaron Mandel
2606 Baird Boulevard
2606 Baird Boulevard — 2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1942–1960
Charles O. Doughton & Family; plumber; Charles O. & Josephine A. Doughten; Charles R. Doughten; Helen Doughten Didas; Ruth Doughten Stokes; Mildred Doughton Dahl
2607 Baird Boulevard
2607 Baird Boulevard — 2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
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1947
Allen Saull
2608 Baird Boulevard
2608 Baird Boulevard — 2500–2600 Block of Baird Boulevard
Corporal Isadore "Israel" Goldstein (1914–1945) of 2578 Baird Boulevard, Camden, served with Company D, 759th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army. He was killed in action on April 5, 1945 at Nassau, Germany while saving 21 other soldiers, and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Somerset Street is an East Camden thoroughfare running north from Admiral Wilson Boulevard to Raritan Street, serving primarily as an exit ramp for eastbound traffic rather than a residential street.
Maplewood Street is an East Camden street that was never developed for residential use, only partially paved, due to the Baird Avenue overpass and commercial development along Admiral Wilson Boulevard.
Cooper Browning Hatch was a prominent citizen of Camden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch in a farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society.
Theodore T. Kausel was born in New York on October 25, 1885. By 1919, he resided in Camden, New Jersey, where he served as superintendent of the Castle Kid Company, one of the city's leather manufacturing businesses.
Daniel A. Gottlieb was born in Russia on August 18, 1882, and immigrated to America in 1890. After marrying Fannie, the couple lived for a time in Pennsylvania, where they welcomed daughter Essie in 1907 and son James in 1909.
Henrietta Terrace is an alley in East Camden, New Jersey, running behind the 2600 block of Baird Boulevard from Federal Street to Mickle Street. No houses or buildings carry a Henrietta Terrace address.
Bank Street runs from Baird Boulevard and Carman Street southwest, crossing Marlton Pike, to Admiral Wilson Boulevard. Once the center of a notorious open-air drug market in the 1980s–90s, the street was redeveloped as part of the Peter J. McGuire Gardens housing project in the early 2000s.
Aaron Ward, born on November 26, 1834, in what was then Newton Township, Gloucester County, NJ (now within the borders of Camden), was the youngest of eight children born to Mason and Hannah Barton Ward.
Admiral Wilson Boulevard (US Route 30) runs from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Airport Circle, named after World War I naval hero Admiral Henry Braid Wilson Jr. of Camden — originally designated as Bridge Boulevard when it opened.
EDWARD J. BORDEN SR. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 12, 1888 to John and Beatrice Borden, both of whom were born in Canada. The elder Borden was a boilermaker by trade.
Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.
Royden Street , which was improperly spelled on the city plan, was named in honor of William Royden, who in 1681-82 became the owner of all the land between the present Cooper Street and Line Street .
By Dr. Samuel Zuckerman As published in the Jewish Community Voice , January 5, 2005. I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path.
Death notice for John H. Heaton of 2556 Baird Boulevard, husband of the late Eda Thegen Heaton; funeral arrangements through Murray Funeral Home on Cooper Street.
Dr. S. Marvin Bell, 55, of 2411 Baird Boulevard, a Camden dentist for 22 years and past president of Congregation Beth Israel and the East Camden Lions Club, died at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.
Obituary for Mrs. Josephine A. Doughten, 64, of 2606 Baird Avenue, who died at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital after eight years as cashier at the Arlo Theatre in East Camden.
Obituary for Morris Bass, 65, of 2630 Baird Boulevard, retired operator of the Bass Food Market on Cooper Street, Camden resident for 45 years and member of Ahev Zedak Synagogue.
Copper piping and tools were stolen from Dan's Metal Products at 318 Kaighns Avenue, reported by proprietor Daniel Greenstein of 1504 Baird Avenue — Camden Courier-Post, November 11, 1958.
Samuel Rosen, 51, of 2597 Baird Boulevard, a leader in Jewish fraternal and charitable circles and one of the founders of Beth Israel synagogue, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia.
Aviation Cadet Burton L. Pearl, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Pearl of 1473 Baird Avenue, graduated from the Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School at Fort Myers, Florida after nine months of service.
A runaway bakery horse at Admiral Wilson Boulevard and Baird Avenue triggered a chain-reaction crash injuring three people; Harold B. Ash, 20, of 982 North Twenty-third Street was among those treated at Cooper Hospital.
Homemakers Off Air 4th Annual Child Welfare Institute Being Planned for April Will Hold 4 Classes The desire to carry on toward the goal envisioned by founders of the Parent-Teacher Association will be emphasized throughout the country in honor of the 41st anniversary of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Brunner Lauds Rulers for $40,000 Saving by Co-operation in Offices $302,000 IS VOTED ON STREET BONDS All departments of the city government were operated within the budget appropriations during 1937 and the city's saving, as a result, was $40,000, Mayor George E. Brunner announced yesterday.
Three persons were injured in an automobile crash at Admiral Wilson and Baird Avenues; John Kaus Jr. of 1738 Tioga Street suffered the most serious injury, a severed tendon of the right hand.
Wedding of Miss Dorothy Schuler of 1412 Baird Avenue and Harold S. Haines of Gibbsboro at Parkside M.E. Church, with reception at the bride's mother's home.
Members Approve Proposal to Provide New Capital to Finish Building A Plan for refinancing of the City Athletic Club was approved by several hundred members who met Monday night in the building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards .
Dr. Mildred F. DuBell, a recent graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, will summer at Ocean City with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles DuBell of 1415 Baird Avenue, and will open offices at her home in the fall.
Sheriff's sale notice for 1412 Baird Avenue, property of Yetta Norwitz, ordered by the Court of Chancery of New Jersey; debt of $1,437.70 owed to South Camden Building and Loan.
Baird Boulevard property owners protested being taxed for tree planting and traffic island grading while Cooper Street property owners challenged road-widening assessments before city commissioners.
George Hickman and Joseph Hand, arrested at Cape May Court House, were wanted in Camden for the theft of an automobile and a camping outfit from the garage of John H. Ohrens at 1393 Baird Avenue.
Two Camden boys, Harry Pinskey Jr. of 1525 Baird Avenue and William McGrath of 1500 Baird Avenue, fractured their skulls after jumping from an ice wagon into the path of an automobile and were taken to Cooper Hospital in serious condition.
A Camden Daily Courier building-permit notice for April 1913, recording Charles W. Austermuhl's eight dwellings on Baird Avenue, six on Florence Street, and a three-story brick building for S. Chew & Sons Company at 37-39 North Third Street.
A 1903 Philadelphia Inquirer news column noting incorporations, the probate of Assistant Tax Receiver Frank S. Jones's will, reopening services at Tabernacle Baptist Church, and contractor Aaron Ward's start of work on the approaches to the Baird Avenue bridge.
