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The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 12, 1891: saloonkeeper William Gallagher of 106 Kaighn avenue pays his Sunday-selling fine, the Rev. J. Livingston Allen of the Kaighn Avenue Methodist Church marks his silver anniversary, and Thomas Guthridge sues the West Jersey Railroad Company for $10,000.
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 19, 1891: local Camden items, including a burglary at J. Hermann's tailoring establishment at 1120 Broadway, the start of cars on the new Fourth street line, and Mayor Pratt holding William Kemble in $500 bail on a policy-writing charge.
Chalkley Leconey, recently acquitted of murdering his niece, went before the grand jury seeking perjury indictments against Detective Patrick M. Gallagher and Garrett Murray; the jury refused to find a bill.
An 1888 Camden Post advertisement in which builder Wilson Ernst offers new 7-room and 4-room houses for sale near the South Street and Kaighn Avenue ferries.
Burglars bored through the back porch shutter of John H. Rorer's home at 417 North Fourth Street in March 1886, but were frightened off before taking anything.
Camden police raided a policy (numbers) shop at 330 Joint Alley in August 1884, arresting proprietor John W. Baynard, policy writer George M. Johnson, and a player, Benjamin Stone.
A June 1880 Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news: the Decoration Day procession of G.A.R. Posts 5 and 37, the death of Lewis Werts, a runaway horse stopped on Federal Street near Broadway, and other local items.
The West Jersey News "Died" column of April 5, 1865, heading with Benjamin F. Brown, Principal of the Camden Colored School, who died in South Camden in his 33rd year.
The West Jersey Hotel at Delaware Avenue and Market Street was built by the West Jersey Ferry Company in 1849. The name was changed to new Camden Hotel in 1909.
City Council authorized the construction of a market house on Market Street at the intersection of Third Street on March 13, 1837. This market house containing 8 stalls was erected at a cost of $250, and was ready for use December 28, 1837.
Cholera appeared in Camden. This was said to be the first appearance here of the disease in epidemic form.