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Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society - February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street , Camden, New Jersey.
Obituary for Vincenzo Pucci, 71, of 605 Avon Street, a native of Italy and 40-year Camden resident, former employee of White Lamb Finlay Co.; survived by his wife Felicia, daughter Mrs. Mary Doto and brother Dominic.
Two North Camden men, including Joseph Packer of 621 Grant Street, reported being attacked in separate street assaults in December 1957.
Obituary of Domenic F. Persiano, 31, of 526 Royden Street, a Camden tailor and World War II veteran, from the Camden Courier-Post of December 10, 1957.
Angelo Rago, 68, a retired Philadelphia Navy Yard employee and World War I veteran, died at his home at 1707 South 4th Street in December 1957.
Death notice for Serafina DeLuca (née Serchia), 78, of 603 Avon Street, Camden. Funeral at Bocco Funeral Home, Mass at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.
Camden Courier-Post, December 1, 1957: Anthony Mona, 38, of 4th Street near Atlantic Avenue, changed his plea to non vult on nine indictments for breaking and entering and larceny; Judge Martino set sentencing for Dec. 19 and continued his $50,000 bail.
Obituary of James V. Paradise, 65, of 1030 Collings Road, a member of the Camden police force until his retirement in 1943 and later a guard for Acme Stores Co.
Vincent DiPatri, 69, who lived 40 years at 1809 South 4th Street and retired as a PRSL maintenance-of-way worker after 36 years, died in March 1957.
Courier-Post list of Camden fire alarms from midnight Sunday to midnight Monday, including fires on Stevens and Benson Streets, a rubbish fire on North 3rd Street and an auto fire at 4th and Viola Streets.
A neighbor who ran several blocks Friday night when she saw smoke and flames brought firemen to rescue Samuel Liberetti, 88, of 606 Avon Street, near West and Beckett Streets. Firemen of Engine Co. 1 wearing oxygen masks found him semi-conscious in the cellar, and he was treated at Cooper Hospital for smoke inhalation.
A January 1957 death notice for Mrs. Anna E. Elbertson of 917 North 4th Street, a native of Blackwood and a member of the North Baptist Church.
Cooper and West Jersey hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 15, 1956, including Christine Whye of 1017 Kaighns Avenue, treated for dog bites of the face.
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."
Drunken driving charges against Edward Dickerson of Barrington were dismissed after a physician testified he was fit to drive when arrested on complaint of John R. Frett of 1236 North 29th Street, following a bumper collision at 4th and Penn Streets.
Juvenile authorities questioned two boys, 9 and 11, who set a debris fire with motor oil behind the abandoned Stevens School at 4th and Berkley streets; Detective Nicholas Pavlak investigated.
Fairview gunsmith Edward Drzewucki, 24, was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with a leg wound after a .25 calibre pistol he was testing in his basement shop at 1439 Collings Road accidentally discharged.
Death notice for Charles B. Lamon of 1233 South 4th Street, Camden, who died February 1, 1954; husband of the late Anna Davis Lamon (nee Hagerty).
A holdup man took $85.55 from the K Liquor Store at 321 Market Street, and the same night burglars failed to open a safe at the Cooperson auto body repair shop at 38 North 4th Street.
Giuseppe A. "Hoover" Cuffari, 65, of 310 Beckett Street, who had run Hoover's Cafe at 941 South 4th Street since 1930, died in West Jersey Hospital in December 1953.
Vincent Del Pidio, 71, of 1873 South 4th Street, an Italian-born Camden resident of 45 years who worked 35 years for the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, died in West Jersey Hospital.
Camden Courier-Post - May 21, 1953 High Mass for Dominick J. Persiani , 35, will be sung Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Sacred Heart R. C. Church . Relatives in the funeral home of Joseph A. Falco, 1020 S. 4th st. , where friends may call Friday night.
Kaighn School Razed; Blazes Set in Church, Unoccupied House Police today are investigating the possibility that three fires Wednesday within a quarter-mile area inside of three hours and 46 minutes were the work of a firebug.
Camden detectives returned about $4360 in stolen goods to burglary victims at City Hall in April 1952 and held parolee George Wilmer as the suspected daytime "phantom burglar."
Municipal Judge Benjamin Dzick continued until Jan. 19 the hearing of Jess Garwood, a National Plumbing & Heating Co. foreman arrested by Camden fire marshal inspector Walter Fredericks for installing an oil burner without a permit at the new Dow Chemical Co. building at 4th and Market streets.
Death notice for Mrs. Catherine Casale, 73, of 934 South Fourth Street, a Camden resident of more than 40 years and a member of the St. Lucy and St. Gabriel societies.
Named as Mertz Gets Leave and Prepares to Retire on Jan. 15 Camden Courier-Post - November 17, 1949 Camden has a new acting fire chief today— William Van Pfefferle .
A May 1949 statutory notice that Edward Zuby, trading as the Friendly Tavern, had applied for a plenary retail consumption license for 1921 South 4th Street, Camden.
Funeral notice for Frank Salerno, 58, of 424 South Fourth Street, announcing a Solemn Requiem Mass in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Page 76 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for T. L. Bear, jeweler, at 204 Market St., M. J. Jubanyik, Inc. at 6th and Penn Sts., John W. Kile's Walt Whitman Flower Shop at 625 Cooper Street, Siris Abbatoirs at Broadway and Jackson St., roofer Max Reihmann, Jr., Y&B roofing and siding, Louis E. Schimpf, florist C. Jackel and the Belfi Insurance Agency, with the compliments of Chief of Police George W. Frost.
Page 78 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for C. Miller fine furs, John F. Gorman, Finkelstein's shoe bargains at 1114 Broadway, Lester's at 2637 Westfield Avenue, Local No. 880 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, Budget Food Market, Savitz, Wm. Pepeta, Jr.'s cafe at 1101 N. 27th Street, the Bismarck Tavern, Shapiro's Shoe Store at 219 Broadway, Kogan's Drug Store, Dannenhower Sports, Anne Doris Beauty Shop and Danny's Floral Shop.
Page 23 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for G. Vignola's Federal Cleaners & Dyers at 2800 Federal Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how Father Byrne bought the plot at Westfield Avenue and Federal Street that became St. Patrick's cemetery, and how the Saints Peter and Paul, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Sacred Heart parishes began.
Page 68 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Cartun wholesale wall paper, paint and hardware at 3507-09 Federal Street, H. Trautenberg's Federal Pharmacy at 35th and Federal Streets, Star Ice and Coal Service at 126 and 141 North 26th St., Barry's Clothes at 21st and Federal Sts., the Camden Welding Co. at 1301-1307 South Sixth St., funeral director Antonio Mecca at 819 South Fourth Street, the Federal Liquor Co. at 24th and Federal Streets, Parkview Stables on Route 40, Tiedeken Bros. at 429-31-33 Van Hook Street, and M. Barbell, P.T.
The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester at 713 Broadway was destroyed by a two-alarm fire of undetermined origin following an explosion. Eight companies fought the fire for seven hours, and damage was estimated at $100,000.
Ten-year-old Robert Spinozzi, son of Louis Spinozzi of 552 South Fourth Street, drowned unnoticed in the Farnham Park pool in August 1941 while 280 other children swam around him.
Mrs. Jennie E. Middleton, 62, of 315 North Fourth Street was hurt when the car driven by her husband, Timothy A. Middleton, collided with a trailer truck at Marlton Pike and Crescent Boulevard, Pennsauken.
Sixteen motorists were arrested by State Police of the Berlin barracks for motor vehicle violations; among them was Frank Blair of 987 North Twenty-third Street, fined $2.50 for careless driving.
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.
An in-memoriam notice placed ten years after the death of Herman A. Dippner of the 500 block of North 4th Street, who died February 25, 1928.
Albert Corito, 48, a cement finisher of 1865 South Fourth Street, was killed when struck by an automobile on a Saturday night in February 1938.
The Camden Courier-Post births column of February 17, 1938, under the headings "Births — West Jersey" and "At Home" — among them a son born to Mr. and Mrs. William Griffin of South Thirty-fifth Street.
On November 19, 1936, Congressman Chas. A. Wolverton certified that Nathan Rosengarten of 1135 Langham Avenue, Camden, could take the preliminary competitive examination for appointment to the U.S. Military Academy on December 12, 1936.
The second installment of Frank Sheridan's 1936 Courier-Post history of fire fighting in Camden traces the Weccacoe Fire Company, whose headquarters moved to the old City Hall lot on Federal Street, and the Mohawk, Independence and Shiffler volunteer companies.
Joseph Auletto, 40, of 909 South Fourth Street paid a $25 fine after detectives raided a craps game in his poolroom; five others, including Joseph Bailey of 1354 Morton Street, received suspended sentences.
Anthony Carrozza, a 20-year-old RCA Manufacturing Company employe, admitted faking a kidnaping and robbery story after cashing 12 fellow workers' pay checks at the West Jersey Trust Company, Third and Market streets; Detectives Thomas Murphy and August Fortune recovered the money in Philadelphia.
Michael Maloni and Dominick Vizzone, convicted of robbing Ninth Ward Republican Club employee Jacob Mutzer, claimed he had plotted with them to steal the club's slot machines at 536 Broadway; Judge Frank F. Neutze said their story "doesn't ring true" and sentenced them to four months.
Tony Scola was arrested and identified by David McMullen of 1015 North 34th Street as one of three men who robbed him of craps winnings at gunpoint. Scola was taken at Fourth and Spruce Streets by Acting Captain George Clayton and Detective Clifford Del Rossi.
Funeral notice for Frank Hohenstein, 32, of 314 South Fourth Street, a Campbell Soup Company employee and member of the German Lutheran Church, who died in February 1936.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Camden Lodge of Elks tonight will shatter all initiation records of recent years. In addition to 50 new members to be received 80 former members are to be reinstated.
DiMona's Furniture Stores advertise a Maytag washer with no down payment, three years to pay and a 30-day free trial, Camden Courier-Post, February 11, 1936.