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Page 33 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: compliments of the Members of Fire Dept. at 27th and Federal Streets, G. C. H., Greenetz and Greenetz and the East End Republican League at 300 North 27th Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how the church was mortgaged in 1893 and 1894 to pay for the ground and building.
Page 44 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the Schmid family's Inter-Urban Real Estate and Insurance Offices at 26th St. and River Ave., John Lynch's Boulevard Grille at 27th and Federal Streets, Mary Hinkson's Hinkson's Cafe at 27th St. and Marlton Pike, Pennsauken, and builder Joseph Munger & Son, around an installment of the parish history telling of the new rectory and convent of 1930-31 and the assistant priests who served under Father McCorristin.
Page 72 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the M. and H. Sweet Shop at 2507 Federal Street, American Plumbing and Heating Supplies at 2304 Federal St., the New Jersey Bottling Co. at 524 Liberty St., Choice Liquors, Inc. at 3512 Westfield Ave., James Mulligan, the 12th Ward Democratic Club at 32 Church St., the Victoria Barber Shop at 2510 Federal Street, N. Saccomanno's tonsorial parlor at 3418 Federal Street, Koerner's pastries on N. 27th St., and Fitzpatrick's florist at 1539 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
Page 75 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the United States Pipe Organ Co. at 121-125 N. 18th St., Philadelphia, Rosen Bros. furriers at 1030 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John DelDuke, Wells Drug Stores, Inc. at 25th and Federal Streets and 27th St. and Westfield Ave., the East End Junk Co. at 2105 Federal Street, Leo's Mfg. Co. at 1113 S. Third Street, Katharine Byrne, Spuhler's Grille at 2312 Federal St., and Lynch's dry cleaning at 523 Market St. and 2640 Federal St.
Page 13 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for U. S. Tire Service at 920 Market Street and Murphy Auto Body Works at Twenty-Seventh St. and Sherman Ave., around an installment of the parish history telling of the West Jersey missions of the Reverend Theodore Schneider and "Father Farmer."
Page 52 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Andrew Ebert's Sons funeral directors at 851 Haddon Ave., Clementon Lake Park, Joseph F. Bittner plumbing and heating contractor at 134 N. Twenty-Seventh Street, and Blake & Myrtetus funeral directors at 1530 Collings Road, Fairview.
Page 66 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Gustav Roedel & Son funeral directors at 804-06 North 27th Street, Ernest Holcher's Crescent Bottling Co. at 25th St. and River Rd., The Farm Beer Garden near Haddonfield, Joe's Chateau, David V. Murray's Murray's Inn, Gus Saccomanno's Gus' Barber Shop at 26th Street and River Road, Kooker's at 2614 River Avenue, and Bantle's hardware at 513 N. 6th St. and 2318 River Ave.
A 1943 yearbook page of advertisements for the Arthur H. Holl funeral service at 1401 Princess Avenue, Camden, and Haddonfield, the Sudler-Eichel Funeral Home, Daly's Grill and the Karr Novelty Company. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book, 1943.
Obituary of George B. Johnson, 80, who retired as a patrolman in the Camden Police Department in 1920 after 21 years of service. Funeral services were to be held Wednesday at the home of his daughter on North Thirty-ninth Street, with burial at Harleigh Cemetery.
Fireman William Getner, 51, of 1205 North Twenty-sixth Street, a member of Engine Company No. 11, was overcome by heat on June 7, 1942, while fighting a dump fire on River Road between Federal and State Streets, and was admitted to West Jersey Hospital.
William H. Remaley, foreman of joiners at the Mathis Yacht Building Company, and his wife Lydia celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their home at 2730 Pierce Avenue.
Five Camden young men, including Edward Ward of 1150 Langham Avenue, were inducted into the Army and assigned to the Sixth Medical Training Battalion at Camp Lee, Virginia.
The Auxiliary to the East End Republican League planned a September trip to New York City, meeting at its clubhouse at 300 North 27th Street; Mrs. Mildred Sacco chaired outing arrangements and Mrs. Helen Wells presided.
The City of Camden scheduled the sale of a one-story public garage building with 28 individual garages at 2626 Carman Street, acquired for unpaid taxes, along with seven other tax-delinquent properties including vacant land on Twenty-seventh Street south of Garfield Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, July 4, 1941.
Former Camden Councilman Frederick Geissler, 67, died after a six-month illness at his home at 930 North 24th Street. He served as justice of the peace and was a lifelong Republican and member of Mozart Lodge No. 121.
Fires caused slight damage at the home of Percy DeRoche, 2937 Berkley Street, where Capt. Daniel Smith's Engine Co. 9 responded, and at the home of Etta Adams, 819 Locust Street, where an oil stove ignited a couch.
Obituary of Mrs. Sophie Buechler, 74, of 1130 North 26th Street, who came from Germany, lived in East Camden from 1902 and was an aunt of Mrs. Pauline F. Caperoon, assistant to City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus.
George M. Fink, 72, an orthopedist of 1207 North 33rd Street, died Saturday following an operation. He had lived in Camden for 27 years. Funeral services Thursday; burial in Locustwood Memorial Park.
A fire of unknown origin destroyed the three-story home of Mrs. Edith Saunders at 744 North 24th Street in February 1939, narrowly injuring fireman Walter Eastlack when the rear roof collapsed.
Camden Courier-Post - February 8, 1939 ABBOTT - On February 7, 1939, Robert T. , husband of the late Margaretta Abbott (nee Schuck), of 2891 Tuckahoe Rd. , Camden, NJ., age 72 years.
Retired Sergeant, 73, Stricken With Pneumonia at Seashore Home Robert T." Bobby" Abbott , 73, retired Camden police sergeant and brother of William S. Abbott , former member of the Board of Education, died yesterday at West Jersey Hospital after a week's illness of pneumonia.
Jiminy's "Checked and Double-Checked" column in the Camden Courier-Post of February 4, 1939: Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann's uncertain place in the coming city commission campaign and his budget clash with Mayor George Brunner, followed by personal notes, including Dr. Richard Cranmer of 3416 Federal Street arranging a Cranmer School reunion.
Funeral notice and death notice for Mrs. Lillian Moore, 66, of 1108 North Twenty-fourth Street, Camden, who died February 25, 1938. She was the widow of Alfred Moore; burial was in Calvary Cemetery.
Obituary of Mrs. Emma E. Wahl, 86, who lived 55 years in East Camden and made her final home with son Russell at 930 North Twenty-second Street.
Obituary for Mrs. Emma E. Wahl, 86, an East Camden resident of 55 years who long lived at 2730 Arthur Avenue; the widow of Frederick Wahl, she died at her son's home in Oaklyn after three weeks' illness.
Funeral notice for Mrs. Elizabeth Watson, 63, of 2033 High Street, a waitress for many years at the Y. M. C. A. Restaurant, survived by her husband, Charles.
Death notice for Elizabeth Watson, wife of Charles H. Watson, who died February 10, 1938, in her 63rd year, with funeral services at the Gustav Roedel & Son funeral home on North 27th Street.
Death notice for Catherine W. Ward (nee Lante), 73, wife of the late James H. Ward, of 1110 North 18th Street, Camden. Funeral services were held at Grace Baptist Church, 27th and Cramer Streets.
Junior Fire Captain Eli Hunt of Engine Company No. 3, 1813 Broadway, retired March 1 for disability, took formal leave of his comrades as Battalion Chief Charles Erickson and Commissioner Mary W. Kobus praised his service since 1918.
Preston Fisher of South Merchantville was held in $500 bail on a drunken driving charge made by Policeman Richard Donnelly. After Fisher underwent tests, Lieutenant George Ward and Sergeant Raymond Stark said they did not consider him intoxicated; Donnelly insisted the charge stand.
The Auxiliary of the East End Republican Club scheduled its monthly business session at its headquarters, 300 North 27th Street, with president Mrs. Catherine McKeever presiding.
Announcement by Mr. and Mrs. Leon Abner of 73 South 27th Street of the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth B. Abner to Oscar M. Davis of Philadelphia, August 1935.
A Camden fire engine bound for the fire training school and a Public Service bus collided on wet pavement at River Road and Federal Street, injuring fireman Harry Hess and four bus passengers.
In the May 1934 Republican primary, John L. Wible ran for Twelfth Ward county committeeman on David Baird Jr.'s "Regular Republican" ticket, seeking to unseat "Cy" Harris, who was running for an eighth term.
A police probe failed to fix the cause of the Bell and Evans poultry warehouse fire near 27th and Pleasant streets, which drove 30 families from their Howell Street homes and killed more than 10,000 chickens in May 1934.
Joseph Tischner of 1138 Cambridge Street intends to apply for a Plenary Retail Consumption license for premises at 253 N. 27th Street.
More than 60 comrades honored Fire Capt. Herman Kreher of Engine Company No. 11 at a dinner marking his fiftieth birthday and the eve of his retirement.
With all of Camden's apparatus at the Kaighn's Point conflagration, three off-duty firemen, Captain Clarence Madden and Firemen John Mulligan and George Garner, broke into the discontinued Fourth and Vine streets firehouse, drove its truck to headquarters at Fifth and Arch streets and stood by on call; Chief John H. Lennox commended them.
Camden Courier-Post - June 20, 1933 Pleading guilty to robbery of a chain store at Twenty-seventh and Westfield Avenue , three youths were sentenced yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court.
Camden fireman John C. Voll of 1230 North Nineteenth Street was involved in two successive accidents that injured four people near River Road in June 1933.
Charles H. Nelson, 86, a wood finisher of 2812 Howell Street, suffered a fatal heart attack while walking with his sister at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets in June 1933.
Funeral services were held in Camden for Nicholas Romaine, 48, a member of Engine Company No. 11, who died of injuries suffered fighting a junk-shop fire nearly eight years earlier.
An amnesia-claiming prisoner known only as "Mr. X" tried to leap from a window in February 1933 while being taken to the Bertillon room; Detectives William Boettcher, Clifford Del Rossi and Clarence Arthur subdued him.
Sergeant Thomas J. Murphy and switchboard operator Joseph "Si" Pedigree of 49 South Twenty-seventh Street were among 13 Camden policemen and firemen retiring on pension before the first of 1933, and Mayor Roy R. Stewart said none of the vacancies would be filled. Camden Courier-Post, October 8, 1932.
Camden firemen John M. Peterson and Herman Dreas, both of Engine Company No. 11 and members of Corp. Mathews-Purnell Post 518, Veterans of Foreign Wars, received the Order of the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in France.
A classified Funeral Directors listing with A. Gustav Roedel & Son on North 27th Street, Frank J. Leonard on Broadway, and Mrs. D. M. Stanton & Son, Carroll J. Stanton, at 336 Carteret Street.
Rallies in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local candidates on the Democratic ticket will be conducted tonight in Ashland and in three wards of the city.
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall East Camden used to have three parks "in the old days" — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.
Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928: Ben Courter's profile of William L. Hurley, who built a small store at Fifth and Pine streets into the Gately & Hurley store at Broadway and Pine streets on a policy of square dealing, and who championed the Camden bridge and the extension of Broadway.