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Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1928. John H. Lennox was promoted to deputy chief and Rollo Jones to battalion chief of the Camden Fire Department, eight men were elevated to senior and junior captain, and eleven new firemen were appointed.
Thieves looted an East Camden chain store and three North Camden residences of more than $400 in cash and jewelry worth nearly $500 during the night.
Organization of the Eleventh Ward Women's Republican Club was completed with the election and installation of officers at headquarters, Twenty-seventh Street and Wayne Avenue. Mrs. Louise Mote was elected president.
A 1926 retrospective recalling William Cooper's 1906 laudanum suicide in Cole's barroom on Federal Street — 20 years after he sat dead in a chair for six hours while a pinochle game continued around him.
East Camden neighborhood notes from the Camden Post-Telegram of July 13, 1925: a building and loan meeting at St. Joseph's Hall, shore vacations and a motor tour to Niagara Falls and Canada.
Charles Sheean, a North Camden printer missing since May 29, was found dying in Cooper Hospital of injuries from a Memorial Day auto accident; police planned to re-arrest the driver before Police Judge Cleary.
A column of East Camden notes for November 9, 1923: lodge and V.F.W. meetings at William Penn Hall and Red Men's Hall, and word that Mrs. William L. Adams of 414 North 27th Street was recovering from a serious illness.
Mounted Policeman Harold Hubbs of 201 North 27th Street returned to duty after his horse stumbled and threw him during a Saturday-morning chase near the Harry Sharp School, but his injured leg forced him home after two hours.
Victor Floyd of Eufaela, Alabama, employed at the packing station of the Jersey Fruit Growers' Association and living at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Asay at 110 North 27th Street, was taken to Cooper Hospital by police ambulance and operated on for appendicitis.
"Gus" Allenback, proprietor of the East Side Ice Company at 418 North 27th Street, appeared on the street with a new ice delivery truck in September 1923.
A food sale for the benefit of the Old Folks Home was held at the home of Mrs. Mabel Nutt, 107 North 26th Street, in September 1923.
Raymond R. Snape of 2826 Cramer Street carried his baby to safety and summoned firefighters after unattended burning meat filled the house with smoke. No real damage was done beyond the smoke.
Firemen from the station at 27th and Federal Streets were called to extinguish a chimney fire caused by soft coal soot at 401 North 41st Street on the evening of March 17, 1923 (the Saturday before this Monday, March 19 report); no damage resulted.
The family of Richard Cox at 117 North Twenty-first Street was roused at 5 a.m. by smoke from a chimney fire; the roof briefly caught flame but damage was limited to $50.
The funeral of John G. Schramm, a pioneer resident of Cramer Hill who operated a hotel at 27th Street and Cleveland Avenue, was held December 1, 1920 from his home at 912 North 31st Street.
Miss Dora A. Moore of 51 South 27th Street, Camden, and William B. Cavanaugh were married at the Woodbury P. E. Church in June 1920, with a reception at her parents' home.
The Camden Post-Telegram reports the death of Frank Worthington, 12, son of Mrs. Mary Worthington and the late Fire Chief Charles Worthington, of spinal meningitis; he was a nephew of the J. E. Cullingfords of 308 North 27th Street.
Henry Thomas and "Brownie" Jones were arrested at 636 Locust Street by Detectives Moffett and Murry as suspects in the highway murder of Francis Martin Hageney at Twenty-seventh Street and Marlton Avenue.
Firemen connected with the Twenty-seventh and Federal streets engine house, Camden, were taken by some surprise when one of their number, Israel Adams announced he had been promoted a captain, and ordered them to get ready to accompany him to another house.
Edward Finn, 17, of 2617 Howell Street burglarized a home at 564 North 27th Street and leaped from a second-story window to escape before being arrested, in July 1915.
Police located two more witnesses in the Karl Kellmann murder case: Berthold Neuman of 2813 High Street, who crossed the Twenty-seventh street bridge shortly before the shots, and railroad man Stewart Dahm, who was confronted by Duffield near Twenty-sixth street.
Detectives Painter and Moffett identify William Haggerty of 2806 Carman Street as the man who crossed the Twenty-seventh street railroad bridge just before Karl Kellmann's murder; he spoke to Duffield there and went on without being interfered with.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
Three Camden firemen of Truck Company No. 3 narrowly escaped death when a Camden and Trenton trolley car crashed into their hook and ladder at Westfield Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street after morning practice. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 1909.
John Graham, formerly of Pyne Poynt and proprietor of the hotel at Twenty-seventh Street and the Pavonia railroad bridge, takes up pigeon fancying and is nearly ready to enter young bird races.
Local notes from East Camden: Nicholas Donahue elected to Board of Trade; Harry Lake ill at home; Ezra Wallace of 38th Street and Westfield Avenue confined to home with sickness; James N. Lloyd of 2831 Concord Avenue seriously ill with pneumonia.
The heat caused two dogs to go mad in East Camden — one on Thirtieth Street, another on Twenty-second Street near River Road. Policeman Johnson killed one; Policeman Thomas killed the other.
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, the first Catholic parish in East Camden, was founded in 1893 at 25th and Howell Street and celebrated its Golden Anniversary in 1943. A new church built in 1952 at 2907 Federal Street became St. Joseph's Pro-Cathedral.