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Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
Salem Street is a one-block street running from Ferry Avenue south to Viola Street. Homes at 1831 through 1841 Salem Street first appear in the 1890-1891 Camden City Directory.
While Walter Wilson and his wife were at a movie, a burglar entered their home at 1025 Morton Street through the cellar and stole about $65.
Francis Drury, 66, scared off two youths who tried to hold him up on Eighth Street between Vine and State Streets by pretending to reach for a gun. Camden Courier-Post, October 27, 1936.
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.
Camden Courier-Post - February 24, 1936 Proprietor of Wall Street Club Charged With Hitting Policeman Four persons were arrested early yesterday during a free-for-all fight in the Wall Street Club, 340 Federal Street , according to police.
Four youths, among them Nicholas Boganik of 1305 Thurman Street, were held for the grand jury by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast on a charge of stealing an automobile after Motorcycle Policeman Gus Fortune caught them following a chase.
Eight Camden boys, including Edward and Jess Luczkiewicz of 1051 Louis Street, were committed to the detention home in February 1928 for stealing copper wire and battery plates; police sought the junk dealer said to have bought the goods.
Camden Courier-Post - January 2, 1928 Bertman Frees Both After Police Tell of Fuss at Brewer's Cafe Mickey Blair , Camden pugilist, and Thomas Schneider, secretary to Commissioner William D. Sayrs.