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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.
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.
Four men were arrested after Michael Di Orio of Pine Street allegedly threatened to kill George Hettrick; Di Orio was held in $1000 bail and the others as witnesses.
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.
Police raided an alleged speakeasy at 1067 Thurman Street and seized four women, five men and 500 bottles of homebrew, according to the Camden Courier-Post of June 18, 1932.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reino A. Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden Street, and Henry N. Mallet, 21, of 119 North Ninth Street, were found guilty of holding up two bus drivers by a jury of eleven, after juror Charles B. Kay was excused saying he had been beaten and "put on the spot."
Roxie Allen, Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and Carmen Passarella of 1227 Broadway were arrested and identified by police as two of four men who held up a craps game at Landisville, where the loot was said to total between $150 and $200.
Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths were held without bail after being identified as four of the five bandits who robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom.
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.
Sixty-four people charged under the national prohibition act pleaded not guilty before U. S. District Judge John Boyd Avis in Camden, among them Horace L. Brewer of 3080 Federal Street and Lillian S. Turner of 1108 Federal Street; bench warrants were issued for 10 others who failed to appear.
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.
More than 1500 guests attended the reception at the Sons of Italy Hall after Miss Jennie Maroccia of South Third Street married Louis Cavallo of 314 Kaighn Avenue at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
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.
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.
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.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post news photograph of a coupe driven by Stephen Jaross of 934 Thirty-third Street after it collided with a Camden-Gibbsboro bus at Third and Market Streets; Jaross was severely injured and ten bus passengers were thrown from their seats.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post report that ten passengers in a Camden-Gibbsboro bus were thrown from their seats and coupe driver Stephen Jaross was severely injured in a collision at Third and Market Streets; bus driver Harry Holloway was released on his own recognizance.
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.
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
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.
Councilman Charles H. Greer, superintendent of the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company, was badly beaten while trying to stop three men from stealing his automobile outside the Helena apartments at Third and Cooper streets.
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.
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.
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.
Real estate transfers in Camden County towns, including 1339 Princess Avenue, William S. Eastlack to Florence Podmore, $3000. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1914.
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.
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.
Camden police believe Ilario Di Antonio, sailing for Italy, stabbed William Gallagher to death at Locust and Pine streets on December 8, 1912; two compatriots were arrested after Detectives Schregler and Troncone investigated.
Hundreds of Houses Ruined by Violent Wind and Rain and two Persons May Die; Streets Strewn with Debris Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night.
The city of Camden was hit by tornadoes, or as they were then called, cyclones, on two occasions, August 3, 1885 and April 2, 1912.
Thomas Armitage and Kelly Parker of 526 South Third Street, electricians at the Pennsylvania Railroad power house at the foot of Federal Street, were burned about the eyes, hands and face when a wire short-circuited.
Peter Roane, 60, of 203 Byron Street, fell on icy pavement at Third and Linden streets and was taken to Cooper Hospital with fractured ribs.