News Articles
Merit awards
Outgoing Camden fire chief Theodore Primas presented awards to two citizens and fire personnel, including those who fought a fire at 2930 Cramer St.; John J. Mogck Jr. was sworn in as the new chief.
Tag
2nd Street
News Articles
An Ordinance Releasing and Extinguishing the Public Rights in Clay Street
The City of Camden ordinance releasing and extinguishing the public rights in Clay Street between South Second Street and Front Street, as part of the City Centre urban renewal project. Camden Courier-Post, October 12, 1974.
News Articles
5 Juveniles Arrested in Plant Blaze
Five North Camden boys aged 11 to 14 were arrested after a general-alarm fire at the vacant former John R. Evans Co. leather tanning plant at Second and Erie Streets in December 1971; the building's owner put his loss at $100,000 to $200,000, according to Fire Marshal Harold Pike.
News Articles
Burglars Steal Equipment, Wine
Burglars took two movie projectors and typewriters from a Manpower training center, and nine cases of champagne from a Gallo Wine boxcar at 2nd and Beckett Streets.
News Articles
Camden — Birth Notices
Camden birth notices from the Camden Courier-Post, November 9, 1967, listing eight births, including Deborah Dee to Mr. and Mrs. David Lavender of 128 Boyd Street.
News Articles
Camden Fireman Cited by Buffs
The Delaware Valley Fire Buffs Association gave Camden fire captain John Gryckiewicz a special citation and a $25 savings bond in September 1966 for his rescue of Mrs. Emily Burns from a burning North Camden bedroom, his second honor that year.
News Articles
MS Victim: Fireman Rescues Woman
Fire Capt. John Gryckiewicz of Engine Company 6 carried Mrs. Emily Burns, a 40-year-old multiple sclerosis patient, from her burning second-floor apartment at 602 North 2nd Street in February 1965, after two civilian rescue attempts failed.
News Articles
Four Firemen Suffer Hurts In Collision
Four Camden firemen were injured when their engine collided with a tractor-trailer at 2nd and Market streets while answering a false alarm; the truck driver was charged with failure to yield to a fire apparatus.
News Articles
Camden Fire Alarms
Camden fire alarms from midnight Monday until midnight Tuesday, printed in the Camden Courier-Post on February 15, 1956: grass fires at 2nd and Beckett, 2709 Federal and 31st and Pleasant streets, rubbish at 1245 Mechanic Street and flooring at 322 Pine Street.
News Articles
Camden Fire Alarms
Camden fire alarm log for the 24-hour period ending midnight Tuesday, February 14, 1956, including a grass fire at 31st and Pleasant Streets and a rubbish fire at 1245 Mechanic Street.
News Articles
Dzick Frees 2 In Row Over Car Mishap
Municipal Judge Benjamin Dzick discharged Nicholas Persiano and Anthony Mona after Persiano recanted his charges over a crash into the Dial Shoe Store window at 1152 Broadway; police had called the case a "quarrel among thieves."
News Articles
Ex-Camden Man Gets 5-7 Years in Slaying
Isadore Birch, 29, of New York City, formerly of Kaighn Avenue, was sentenced by County Judge Rocco Palese to five to seven years in State Prison for manslaughter in the 1947 death of Zatch McGriff after a fight at 233 Kaighn Avenue.
News Articles
Notice of Application
Caesar Campana, trading as A Bar Restaurant, applied for a plenary retail consumption license for premises at 826 Locust Street, Camden.
News Articles
Man Held for Jury On Forgery Charge
Joseph S. Parker, 28, of Pine Street near 2nd, was held without bail for grand jury action on two counts of forgery after Detective Harry Kyler accused him of passing a $65 check and a $91 check.
News Articles
Memory of Cop Traps Suspect In '47 Holdup
Patrolman Joseph Carpenter recognized Robert Bailey, 49, of 236 Kaighn avenue, sought since 1947 on a robbery indictment; Municipal Judge Dzick held Bailey without bail for the grand jury.
News Articles
Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses issued in Camden on August 12, 1950, including Robert E. Vohringer of 28 North 30th Street and Bertha M. Selah of 332 North Second Street.
News Articles
Camden's Own 'Miss Chips'
Lucy Dean Wilson, who taught music, public speaking and dramatics at Camden High school for 37 years beginning in 1896, recalls her career as former pupils plan a testimonial dinner for her at the Walt Whitman hotel on April 22.
News Articles
Hospital Cases
A Camden Courier-Post hospital admissions list of November 20, 1949, recording injuries treated at Cooper and West Jersey hospitals, including Mary Dickinson, 74, of 57 North Twenty-second Street, with an injured hip.
News Articles
Life Hereabouts
Charley Humes's "Life Hereabouts" column of March 19, 1949, recalling Camden and Gloucester City's fight days — bouts at the Armory on Haddon Avenue and the ball park at Twelfth and Federal Streets — and the boxers, promoters and referees of the era.
News Articles
Kernan's
Page 73 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Kernan's at Second and Market Sts., Billie's millinery at 453 Kaighn Avenue, barber Sam Bosco at 1444 Haddon Avenue, Hempel's Meat Market at 2606 Federal Street, Melvin and Sam, the Gold Seal Food Market at 2513 Federal St., Jean's at 1105 Broadway, Mary Naden's Naden Store on Kaighn Ave., Massi's Shoe Repairing at 2716 Federal Street, and Harry Chu.
News Articles
Walen's
Page 69 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Walen's at 2609 Westfield Ave., Diamond Poultry Dealers at 2221 Federal Street, M. Bloom & Co. at 215-217 Kaighn Avenue, F. W. Woolworth Co. at 26th and Federal Streets, the Sanitary Barber Shop at 2709 Westfield Ave., Victory Dental Laboratories at 2603 Westfield Ave., the Shirldine Dress Shop at 2629 Westfield Ave., Gaudio Brothers at Second St. and Kaighn Ave., Gustav Schwoeri at 7th and Chestnut Sts., and Bigler's East End Flower Shop at 2628 Federal Street.
News Articles
2 Shipyard Workers Told to Pay Wives
Judge Frank Katzenbach ordered two New York Shipyard employees, Edwin F. Duffy and Emerson Townsend, to pay their wives $7 a week. Duffy's wife, Elizabeth, lived at 692 Woodland Avenue; Townsend's wife, Lena, at 2870 Kansas Road.
News Articles
City Property Sale Authorized
Acting City Counsel John J. Crean was authorized to hold a public sale of 11 city-owned tax title lien properties and lots, including 325 Mickle Street and a lot at Ninth and Everett Streets. Camden Courier-Post, July 25, 1941.
News Articles
Mrs. Kobus to Ask More Cops, Firemen for City Next Year
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
News Articles
Mrs. Dorothea Schilder
Funeral notice for Mrs. Dorothea Schilder, 58, of 938 North Second Street, who died from burns after an oil stove exploded in her home; services were to be held at her son's home at 212 Byron Street.
News Articles
Woman Dies of Burns From Oil Stove Blast
Mrs. Dorothea Schilder, 55, of 938 North Second Street died in Cooper Hospital of burns received when an oil stove exploded in her home; her son Henry was burned beating out her flaming clothing.
News Articles
Hospital Cases
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
News Articles
Sentenced in Sink Theft
Camden Courier-Post - February 12, 1938 Arrested at Second and Main streets with a sink in their possession, two youths were given suspended six-month sentences yesterday by Police Judge Mariano .
News Articles
Marriage Licenses
Marriage license notices published October 28, 1936, including Albert Schilder of 938 North Second Street, Camden, and Margaret C. Kesley of 35 Cornell Avenue.
News Articles
Elimination of 20 City Blocks Urged by Housing Committee
The Camden Housing Advisory Committee recommended that the city clear 20 blocks of sub-standard properties, 895 dwellings in two areas, to save on municipal service costs; Mayor Frederick von Nieda favored eliminating the areas but opposed spending city money without assurance of a return.
News Articles
Man Held in Robbery of Mrs. Shane as Cops Plan 2 More Arrests
Stanley Powell, 28, of 1256 Whitman Avenue, was jailed without bail in connection with the $10,380.50 robbery of Mrs. Mary Shane on Broadway near Kaighn Avenue, while police questioned Frank Gromacki, 28, of 412 Broadway, in the same case.
News Articles
2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children
Scores of children on their way to school were endangered when two horses hitched to a bakery wagon ran away in South Camden streets, ignoring red traffic lights and shouts of pedestrians and motorists.
News Articles
Cooper Hospital Cases
Cooper Hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of October 14, 1933, including Alexander Ellis, 27, of 715 South Eighth Street, stabbed in the chest with an ice-pick.
News Articles
43 Camden Recruits Thrive In Chill Conservation Camp
Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.
News Articles
Bride Elect
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Venn of 1112 North 28th Street announced the engagement of Mrs. Venn's daughter, Miss Weldin, to A. Joseph Lillie, affiliated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Moorestown.
News Articles
Man Hurt, Driver Held
George Cassidy of 216 Sycamore Street was cut about the head, lip and wrist in a collision at Second and Penn streets. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton arrested the driver, Marshall Reinheimer, for failing to show a registration card.
News Articles
3 Held in Robbery of 2 Beer Hunters
George Rumble, Al Dubowski and Frank Marcone were arrested at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue after Bernard Franz of Philadelphia accused them of robbing him and Robert Tully under pretense of showing them where to get beer.
News Articles
Police Raid Five Camden Places in Weekend Cleanup of Rum Sellers
Police raided five alleged speakeasies over the weekend, seizing whisky in four South Camden places, including six jugs at Samuel Arnow's grocery at 534 Kaighn Avenue, and arresting ten men at Mrs. Carrie Becker's home on North 33rd Street.
News Articles
'Bob' Turner Dies; Camden Old Timer
Ben Courter's June 3, 1932 Camden Courier-Post obituary of Robert "Bob" Turner, 58, proprietor of the Federal Street oyster restaurant his father Fred Turner started in 1886, who helped get Camden's Moose lodge under way.
News Articles
Camden Man Stabbed During Argument
Emil Tisani, 35, of 237 Stevens Street, was stabbed in the neck, head and face after an argument in a grocery store at 210 South Second Street; he said he would seek a warrant for Lugi Celani of 203 Royden Street.
News Articles
15th Victim Dies in Gas Plant Blast
With the death toll from the gas blast at the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. plant at Locust and Cherry streets increased to 15, families began burying their dead; Spiro Cecich, 37, of 1815 Salem Street died in Cooper Hospital.
News Articles
Blast at Purifying Plant Killing 14 P.S. Workers Is Held Unpreventable
Investigators believed spontaneous combustion probably caused the explosion in the Public Service purifying plant at Locust and Cherry Streets that killed 14 workmen and burned four others.
News Articles
Moore In Camden Speech Demands Fairness at Polls
Demanding a fair election and protection to Democratic voters, A. Harry Moore was greeted here last night by the largest crowd to gather at a Democratic meeting in Camden's recent history.
News Articles
6 Men Are Nabbed as Number Writers
Six alleged number writers were arrested by Camden's traffic squad on downtown street corners, spreading the belief that Atlantic City racketeers had set up "branch offices" in Camden; two were jailed for 60 days by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
News Articles
Bandit Gun Found
A loaded double-barreled sawed-off shotgun was dug out of a sewer at Second and Federal streets; Detective Robert Ashenfelter tried to link it to guns stolen from the William Stein hardware store and to the holdup of Freeholder Leonard Brehm's saloon.
News Articles
Doris Convicted at Quick Trial; Gets Ten Years
John Doris, 30, a Philadelphia gangster, was tried, convicted and sentenced by Judge Samuel M. Shay to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison for the April 29 shooting of Joseph Connors in Kaighn avenue near Broadway; his wife fainted in court as the penalty was set.
News Articles
Gangster Shot as Racketeers Open War Here
John Doris, brother of the electrocuted Frank Doris, was arrested after Joseph Connors of Gloucester was shot in front of the American Restaurant, 506 Kaighn avenue, near Broadway; a police roundup netted 10 men held as material witnesses.
News Articles
Orlando Raids 35 Gambling Haunts in Slot Machine Drive
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando took evidence from raids on 35 alleged gambling haunts to the Camden County grand jury in a drive against slot machines, while Republican leaders reportedly wanted him called off.
News Articles
Man Held on Charge of Stealing Plumbing
Joseph Tisso [sic], 22, of 214 Benson Street, was arrested at Second and Market streets on a charge of stripping plumbing fixtures and lead pipe from a vacant house at Third and Mickle streets; Captain of Detectives John Golden said he had confessed.
News Articles
Along Memory Lane
Ben Courter recalls the old one-horse dinkey of the Camden Horse Railroad Company on South Second street, and the night in the '90s when driver "Joe" Hackney and his horse carried a posse of armed Kaighn Point citizens up and down Second street chasing a runaway steer.