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Three Drummond children of 912 Chestnut Street drowned in the Cooper River at Camden County Park while fishing; two more children died at Sea Isle City the same day. Camden firemen including Wesley Faust worked the recovery.
Camden Courier-Post — February 23, 1954 A Barrington man went to county jail for 30 days after Judge Dzick ruled him guilty of passing worthless check for rental of an auto.
Six Camden firemen were cited for heroism in rescuing children from a burning apartment at 444 North 5th Street; bartender Michael Cimini of 925 North 22nd Street was also recognized for saving four children before the firemen arrived.
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.
Roofer John Weadership, 54, of 1630 Pulaski St., was injured when a wooden frame broke and he fell from a two-story roof on 5th St. near Royden, according to his employer, Walter Spaeth of 513 Benson St.
Mrs. Eleanor Shaw, 28, a guest at the Hotel Plaza, Fifth and Cooper streets, was taken to Cooper Hospital after an overdose of sleeping tablets; Dr. Herbert Weinberg of 563 Benson Street was the hotel physician.
A 16-year-old boy, William Bush of 431 Riley Street, drowned in the Cooper River near Eleventh and Linden streets after jumping in to escape the heat; two friends and another swimmer could not save him.
Camden Courier-Post, June 5, 1948 — funeral notice for Mrs. Emma G. Woods of 618 South Fifth Street, a life-long Camden resident, with Requiem Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Veteran Camden fireman William Earl Toy died of injuries suffered when Acting Chief William Van Pfefferle's car, which he was driving to a fire at Berwick and Boyd streets, collided with a Public Service bus at Sixteenth and Federal streets.
Page 48 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the South Camden Garage at 539-41 S. 5th St., wholesale confectioner John B. King at 3816 Westfield Avenue, Ralph's Esso Service at 2706-14 Federal Street and Rice & Holman of Merchantville, around the last installment of the parish history, which counts more than 2,600 families and 705 schoolchildren and recalls the move from 25th and Howell Streets to 29th and Westfield.
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.
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.
A 20-ton truck and trailer owned by Ralph Cornell, Inc., of Woodbury, loaded with ventilators for the Campbell's Soup plant, was jammed for two hours under the P.R.R. bridge over Fifth Street south of Federal until the tires were deflated.
The City of Camden scheduled the sale of a one-story public garage building with 28 individual garages at 2626 Carman Street, acquired for unpaid taxes, along with seven other tax-delinquent properties including vacant land on Twenty-seventh Street south of Garfield Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, July 4, 1941.
Newly appointed Camden fireman John Gryckiewicz pulled a flaming rope from around a 50-gallon gasoline drum aboard the tug Pacific at the American Dredging Company docks in December 1940, preventing an explosion.
Former Tenth ward freeholder Harry F. Walton, 52, died at Cooper Hospital from a self-inflicted wound suffered at his 520 Bailey Street home; ill health was blamed.
Funeral arrangements for Lester R. Anderson, 38, of Engine Company No. 2, who died in his sleep at the Fifth and Arch Streets fire house; Arthur Batten was among the pallbearers, all members of the engine company.
A June 1939 Camden Courier-Post report on the Municipal Alcohol Beverage Control Board's ruling that even giving away liquor on Sunday breaks the law, in a hearing that reviewed several licensees including the Polish-American Citizens Club.
Obituary of Joseph H. Murray, Camden's oldest undertaker, who died at his home at 408 Cooper Street. He founded the undertaking business in 1900 and was the father of Coroner Charles T. Murray.
The fire bureau's trial board dismissed Tennie Hutchinson of Fire Truck Co. No. 1, Fifth and Arch streets, who had been suspended by Fire Chief John H. Lennox on charges including absence without leave and unpaid bills.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 26, 1938, including Marie Cahill, 5, of 2168 Berwick Street, treated for brush burns on her hand.
The Camden Courier-Post funeral notice of February 18, 1938 for Mrs. Annie M. Johnston, wife of Daniel A. Johnston, who died at her home at 904 Howard Street; requiem high mass at the Church of the Holy Name and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Funeral services for Leo P. Bridgeman, 32, of 425 Bailey Street, who died yesterday following a long illness, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Church of the Holy Name, Fifth and Vine streets.
Accused of fraud in connection with the sale of a vacuum cleaner, Leonard Hauser, 39, of 218 North Eighth Street, yesterday was arrested and held on $1000 bail for a hearing Monday in Camden police court.
Police of four states hunted a known suspect in the holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street in which Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1110 Langham Avenue was seriously wounded; the card players were held as material witnesses.
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.
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.
The Tenth Ward Republican Organization Club named committees for its tenth annual ball, held February 28 at Eagle's auditorium on Broadway. Earl Wright served on the program committee.
Camden firemen and policemen gave Jack, the Airedale mascot of the Headquarters Fire Company at Fifth and Arch Streets, a hero's funeral in November 1934 after he was crushed under the wheels of his own truck. An estimated 3500 people passed his bier, and taps were sounded over his grave at sunset; Arthur Batten was among the honorary bearers.
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.
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.
Jesse Brown stabbed in a quarrel on Taylor Avenue; his alleged assailant caught on Camden Bridge after Jennie Worona of 208 Burns Street told police where the knife was thrown.
With all of Camden's apparatus at the Kaighn's Point conflagration, three off-duty firemen, Captain Clarence Madden and Firemen John Mulligan and George Garner, broke into the discontinued Fourth and Vine streets firehouse, drove its truck to headquarters at Fifth and Arch streets and stood by on call; Chief John H. Lennox commended them.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of June 19, 1933 for the Smith-Austermuhl Co., N.W. corner of Market and Fifth Streets, urging that every major employee be bonded: "Better to have Insurance and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Man and Woman Struck by Lightning; Mercury Tumbles A violent electric storm, which paralyzed a South Camden woman, accompanied by a driving rain tumbled the mercury last night and ended, temporarily, the six-day heat wave.
Military and Civic Organizations Parade in Camden and Join Services Addressed by Clergy and Congressman Wolverton More than 2500 persons attended a joint veterans memorial observance in Convention Hall which followed a parade of veterans and civic organizations yesterday afternoon.
A South Camden man, convicted in police court of drunken driving, but acquitted on his appeal to Judge Samuel Shay, will seek reinstatement of his driver's license which was revoked officially today by Motor Vehicle Commissioner Harold G. Hoffman.
Courier-Post sports listing of Camden-area amateur baseball clubs seeking games, among them the Sterling A. C., which gave its contact as Albert Flacco of 332 Viola Street.
After a March 1932 collision near Leonard Avenue and Federal Street, Basil P. Cook of 449 North Fifth Street and James Fenton of 834 North Sixth Street were arrested on charges including assault, threat to kill, and reckless driving, on complaint of C. N. Morrow of 7 North Twenty-eighth Street.
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
Democratic speakers, urging suffrage in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and the local Democratic ticket, will invade seven political clubs in the city and county tonight.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of October 16, 1931 for the Smith-Austermuhl Co., insurance, real estate, mortgages and investments at Fifth and Market Streets, promising prompt adjustment of fire insurance claims day or night: "It is better to have insurance and not need it than need it and not have it."
Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall East Camden used to have three parks "in the old days" — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.
Funeral arrangements for Camden Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack: his body would lie in state at the Schroeder Chapel, Broadway and Royden streets, with burial in Harleigh cemetery. The article lists the active and honorary pallbearers.
Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928: Ben Courter's profile of William L. Hurley, who built a small store at Fifth and Pine streets into the Gately & Hurley store at Broadway and Pine streets on a policy of square dealing, and who championed the Camden bridge and the extension of Broadway.
Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1928. John H. Lennox was promoted to deputy chief and Rollo Jones to battalion chief of the Camden Fire Department, eight men were elevated to senior and junior captain, and eleven new firemen were appointed.
A night attendant at Herman Z. Cutler's garage at Fifth and Arch streets saw a man carrying a box up an alley and called police, frustrating a second attempt within ten days by thieves to steal whisky from George Beringer's drug store at Fifth and Federal streets.
With orders to "shoot on sight" issued to suburban police hunting South Jersey's "phantom sniper," a man giving a fake name reported a 16th shooting that investigators could not verify, while a 15th victim came forward separately in Collingswood.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fenner of 615 Grant Street announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Rose M. Fenner, to John A. Harrison.
Capt. J. Scott Franklin, 62, junior captain of No. 1 Company at the Fifth and Arch streets fire house for more than 22 years, died suddenly of a stroke.