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Three graduates of the Camden City Fire Training School received their company assignments in July 1964 — Truman Maples of 1024 North 35th Street, Ernest A. Fagan of 105 South 35th Street, and Spencer Smith 3d of 1523 Collings Road.
A Camden Courier-Post retrospective on the origins of organized labor in Camden, centering on Peter J. McGuire and on the father-and-son cigarmakers Frank and Robert Hartmann, whose Third and Arch Streets factory housed the movement's earliest meetings. Robert Hartmann was elected first president of the Camden County Central Labor Union in 1908.
Nine of Camden's newest firemen, including Wayne Kraft of 1052 North 35th Street, graduated at fire headquarters at 3rd and Arch Streets and received their company assignments.
James Walker pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of Herbert L. Abbott of 1243 South 3rd Street, killed during an argument over a dice game at 211 Line Street in May 1961.
Hospital cases from Camden on November 8, 1958, including Joseph Kelly of 67 South 28th Street (cut scalp) and Raymond Ross of 1223 North 28th Street (cut arm) treated at Cooper Hospital.
Two North Camden men, including Joseph Packer of 621 Grant Street, reported being attacked in separate street assaults in December 1957.
The embezzlement trial of Camden attorney Charles F. Murray was expected to reach a jury, after testimony from his former secretary Mrs. Bernice Brown of 614 South 3rd Street.
West Jersey and Cooper hospital admissions for August 1956, including John Coney, 5, of 2035 Kossuth Street.
Camden marriage license announcements from August 14, 1956, including William Coleman of Lawrence Street and Evelyn A. Bond of 1031 North 18th Street.
Cooper and West Jersey hospital admissions reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.
A Courier-Post account of a Pearl Street fire in which Capt. John Gryckiewicz carried a resident to safety; District Chief Howard Gick described the blaze.
Phillip Livecchi, proprietor of a store at 423 South Third Street, was fined $25 in Camden municipal court on a short-weight charge brought by a state bureau of weights and measures inspector.
Camden Courier-Post - June 2, 1950 Public Works Director Abbott had a birthday Thursday and more than 100 of his friends and associates helped him celebrate it at a surprise dinner.
Albert Wallace of 316 South Third Street was held for grand jury action in Camden municipal court, charged with firing a shot through the door of a friend's home on Berkley Street.
By GEORGE ZACHARIAS As they prepared to take John Brennan on his last ride, Rocco Auletto , known to the fight world as Roxie Allen , was held in $5000 bail for further arraignment next Friday and detectives spread the dragnet for five men believed implicated in the gangland execution at 17th and Rittenhouse Streets.
Mrs. Roseanna Currie, 83, widow of Howard H. Currie, died of a heart attack at her home at 219 North Third Street. She was born in Camden and lived there all her life.
A Camden Courier-Post "Hospital Cases" column of July 31, 1941, listing emergency-room admissions to Cooper and West Jersey hospitals — among them Patricia Titus, 8, of 2005 Arlington Street.
Death notice for Accursia Lazzarone, 59, beloved wife of the late Stefano Lazzarone, who died July 28, 1941. The funeral was held from the residence of her daughter at 617 Line Street, Camden.
A July 1941 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for 3 Bros. Markets, listing four store locations — 7th & Vine and 3rd & Birch in North Camden, 9th & Pine and 6th & Walnut in South Camden — with weekend meat specials.
Frank Manfredi, proprietor of a billiard parlor at 1146 South Third Street and a former Camden prizefighter known as Freddie Mack, was fined $100 for operation of a gaming house after a dice-game raid.
Hospital admission report from West Jersey and Cooper hospitals, Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1940 — among those treated, Charles Neff of 39 North Thirty-third Street and May Davis of 1146 Clover Street.
Temporary Laborers Dismissed, While Men Ousted by Hartmann Are Reinstated Three dismissals, three promotions and four reinstatements and two new hirings were announced yesterday by City Commissioner Henry Magin , director of public works.
Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1938 7 Arrested in Bingo Numbers Racket; 4 Seized in Betting Place Ten men and a woman were arrested in gambling raids over the weekend by Camden city and county authorities.
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.
Test Case Decree Awaits Jurist's Signature Today On Federal Employment Camden Group Endorses Action of Philadelphia Martine The Philadelphia veteran of the World War who was responsible for obtaining a court ruling safeguarding veterans rights for preference on Federal employment projects, last night told his story to Camden ex-service men.
Camden Courier-Post - December 15, 1934 Injured when his car overturned after a collision at Third and State streets yesterday, William Russell, Jr. , 907 York street , is in Cooper Hospital with a fractured skull.
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.
The farmers' market at Third and Pearl streets, under the Camden Bridge, was formally opened with more than 50 farmers occupying stalls under rules requiring each to have grown 75 percent of his produce.
Wiley M. E. Church opened another ten-cent rooming house at 741 Kaighn Avenue in June 1932, with 25 beds, alongside the 65 at its Wiley Haven for Homeless Men at 601-605 South Third Street.
Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third Street, told Police Judge Pancoast he was leaving for North Jersey to start working, and received a suspended sentence on a disorderly conduct charge as a parting gift.
Police Judge Pancoast rebuked Patrolman Charles Smith for altering a complaint and warrant, striking a youth's name from the record, and found the two remaining defendants not guilty.
Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third Street, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after an argument with two other men living at the same address.
Camden Courier-Post - October 31, 1931 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.
Ben Courter's 1931 Camden Courier-Post reminiscence of four leading South Jersey physicians — Drs. Godfrey, Iszard, Davis and Gross — recalling how Dr. H. H. Davis transformed health care for Camden's schoolchildren.
Three Pals of Camden Boxer Also Jailed at Shore for Grand Jury Quartet Identified by Poolroom Owner Limp Betrays Fighter at Landisville - Says He Did Not Aid Holdup Identified as four of the five bandits who held up and robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom yesterday, Roxie Allen , well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths are under arrest today.
Thieves entered the second-floor apartment of Mrs. Flora B. Scannell at 29 North Third Street and took $1000 in jewelry and $100 in cash hidden in a bureau drawer.
Marriage license notices from Camden and Media, Pennsylvania, including Michael Duffy of Philadelphia and Catherine Sharp of 1138 Thirty-first Street, Camden, October 1930.
Two Camden youths held in $2500 bail each on charges of breaking and entering 208 Burns Street and stealing revolvers.
Joseph Knecht, 20, of 328 Byron Street, was sentenced to 60 days in county jail for stealing milk from doorsteps at Third and Erie Streets.
The Fifth Ward Women's Republican Club unanimously endorsed John H. Carroll for county committeeman, with Councilman Julius Allendorf declaring "perfect harmony in the Fifth Ward."
The Fifth Ward Republican Club endorsed Johnny Carroll, cabaret proprietor at Third and Cherry Streets, for re-election as county committeeman, along with councilman Louis Bantivoglio.
Fireman Charles Gladney was overcome by smoke while fighting a fire at the Wearwell Gasket Company on the second floor of 32 North Third Street, Camden, and was carried out by Fireman Edgar Ellender.
Albert Garrison of 2211 South Tenth Street was treated at Cooper Hospital after his face was lacerated by a falling casting.
Grant Alston, employed by Louis Katz, a junk dealer at 1416 South Third Street, was held in $500 bail in Camden charged with the larceny of sixty pounds of brass.
Camden Policeman Andrews, at the point of a revolver, arrested Michael and Thomas Egan of New Street for breaking into the store of Benjamin Stout at 1130 South Third Street.
Vice Chancellor Backes placed two-year-old Robert Kennedy in the custody of his grandparents at 1129 South Third Street, Camden, after his father Walter Kennedy instituted habeas corpus proceedings.
Captain Stanley and a squad made two more raids near Third and Spruce Streets, descending on the places of Mamie Tinsey at 240 Spruce Street and Josephine Quinn at 807 Locust Street.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of recorded real estate transfers for November 1914, including the sale of 845-847 and 849 South Third Street — the Travis Building — by G. Frank Travis to Joseph Palese for $13,000.
Josephus Jennings, Sr., leader of the Sixth and later the Third Regiment Band, N.G.N.J., and latterly of Jennings' Band, died at his home at 319 North Third Street after a week's illness from pneumonia.
Wilson James of 912 South Third Street had badly lacerated lips dressed at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital after being struck with brass knuckles, among the cases treated there over a weekend in July 1913.