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The J. C. Penney Company took a 20-year lease on the old Munger & Long department store property at Broadway and Federal Street, until recently occupied by Stecker & Sons, with the new store, the chain's 146th, to open about August 1.
Two horses pulling the Camden Catholic High School float bolted during the 1932 Flag Day school children's parade, plunging into spectators at Broadway and Federal street and injuring two women and a boy. More than 6000 school children marched before an estimated 75,000 persons.
Camden Courier-Post - June 11, 1932 Offer of $5,300,000 for Catholic Church Property Disclosed in Court.
Joseph Hillop, a Philadelphia crook once accused of ratting on his companions in the holdup of the Furhman jewelry store at 444 Broadway, was beaten, strangled and shot and his body dumped beside the old White Horse pike near Ancora.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, 70, mother of Elks exalted ruler Harry G. Robinson and widow of retired Camden fire captain Charles H. Robinson, died in Collingswood. The Robinsons were pioneer residents of Park Boulevard.
Funeral notice for John H. Brown, 44, of 549 Woodland Avenue, with services at the parlors of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway. He was survived by his widow, Mary L. Brown.
George Rumble, Al Dubowski and Frank Marcone were arrested at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue after Bernard Franz of Philadelphia accused them of robbing him and Robert Tully under pretense of showing them where to get beer.
Camden Detectives Vernon Jones and Thomas Cheesman arrested Phillip Attardi of 320 Vine Street at Broadway and Line Streets on a charge of "on suspicion" after state police asked Camden police to look for him.
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.
A classified Funeral Directors listing with A. Gustav Roedel & Son on North 27th Street, Frank J. Leonard on Broadway, and Mrs. D. M. Stanton & Son, Carroll J. Stanton, at 336 Carteret Street.
A June 1, 1932 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for the architectural firm Byron H. Edwards, Inc., 130 North Broadway, Camden — filed by the source under the Wilson Building at Broadway and Cooper Street.
Ben Courter's January 18, 1932 Camden Courier-Post column recalls D. Cooper Carman, Camden city clerk from 1884 until his death in 1889, and the "young syndicate" of Republicans that sent Maurice A. Rogers to the State Senate and beat back "Billy" Thompson's race-track faction.
Camden Courier-Post - October 31, 1931 Gloucester Republicans concluded their final Baird rally of the campaign last night at their headquarters, 101 North King Street.
Nearly 2,500 costumed revelers attended the Ambassador Club's annual masked Halloween dance at Convention Hall, where more than 200 newsboys dressed as "Popeye" and vaudeville star Walter J. A. Stanton served as master of the fete. Camden Courier-Post, October 31, 1931.
Demanding a fair election and protection to Democratic voters, A. Harry Moore was greeted here last night by the largest crowd to gather at a Democratic meeting in Camden's recent history.
An architect's conception of a proposed bus terminal at 201–217 North Broadway, published in the Camden Courier-Post on October 27, 1931, and a rendering of the Terminal Block at Broadway and Cooper Street, which the source dates 1947–2000.
An October 23, 1931 Camden Courier-Post political column noting, among other items, that the Polish-American Women's Citizens Club had endorsed David Baird for governor — the first endorsement in the club's six-year history.
Three girls, a married man and two youths were arrested after an extended party in a Blackwood Terrace bungalow; John Barwick of 543 Fairview Street and William Murdock of 548 Gordon Terrace were named as material witnesses.
Convention Hall Crowded, Several Thousand Dollars Realized Beatrice Funk Most Popular Event So Successful It May Become Annual Affair The relief fund of the Camden Shrine Club, which will aid its unemployed and distressed members, was swelled by several thousand dollars last night from the receipts of one of the greatest vaudeville shows ever seen in the Convention Hall.
Shrine Club to Select Contest Winner at Convention Hall Show Sixteen South Jersey girls are competing in a popularity contest which closes tonight at the first annual professional show and dance of Camden Shrine Club in Convention Hall .
Two persons were injured when the American Legion Post ambulance of Gloucester collided with a truck at Broadway and Pine Street. The truck was driven by John Max, 46, of 928 North 30th Street.
The American Jewish Yearbook, 1931–1932, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, lists 40 Camden annual members with their addresses, including Lewis Liberman, 307 Market Street.
Camden prepared to pay its last respects to Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, whose funeral cortege would leave Schroeder's, 538 Broadway, for Harleigh Cemetery. Several thousand persons viewed the body, and the entire police department marched past it.
The Camden Morning Post reported that the funeral cortege of Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr would leave Schroeder's Chapel, Broadway and Royden street, for Harleigh Cemetery, after thousands filed past his bier and the entire police department marched past the body.
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.
Six alleged number writers were arrested by Camden's traffic squad on downtown street corners, spreading the belief that Atlantic City racketeers had set up "branch offices" in Camden; two were jailed for 60 days by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
Pair Held With Camden Boxer Admit Landisville Robbery - Fifth Man Hunted With four suspects, including Roxie Allen , Camden welterweight boxer, still held without bail, the State Police today continued their search for the fifth bandit in the $200 holdup of a Landisville poolroom Sunday afternoon.
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.
A weekend crime sweep in Camden: two alleged Philadelphia gangsters were trapped in Harleigh Cemetery by Patrolman Howard Bean and others, while a South Camden grocer routed two holdup men — four suspects held for the Grand Jury.
Camden Morning Post, November 29, 1930. Battalion fire chief Rollo R. Jones was cut on the knee when his car collided with a coal truck at Broadway and Atlantic Avenue while he was responding to a fire alarm.
George Doris, 23, of Philadelphia, was held without bail in June 1930 for breaking into a Broadway women's apparel shop; he was the younger brother of the gangster John Doris.
Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today destroyed the warehouse of Sitley & Son , wholesale hardware, roofing material and grain dealers at Sixth and Bulson streets.
Camden Courier Post, April 12, 1930 Suit to break the lease held on the Pekin Cafe , 818 Broadway by James Richardson, proprietor, has been filed by Mrs. Emma J. Lickfield, owner of the property.
John Doris, 30, a Philadelphia gangster, was tried, convicted and sentenced by Judge Samuel M. Shay to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison for the April 29 shooting of Joseph Connors in Kaighn avenue near Broadway; his wife fainted in court as the penalty was set.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of September 12, 1929, for Wallen's at 405 Broadway, inviting readers to see its stock of fine diamonds in the newer mountings.
Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin barred spectators and ordered a heavy guard for the Criminal Court trial of alleged racketeer John Doris, charged with shooting Joseph Connors near Broadway and Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.
Discharged from West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, Joseph Connors of Gloucester refused to identify John Doris as the man who shot him in a brawl over a girl on Broadway near Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.
Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Palese began preparing to take John Doris to a quick trial for the murder of Joseph "Mose" Flannery, while Doris sat in jail on charges of shooting Joseph Connors at Broadway and Kaighn avenue.
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.
Captain John Golden, head of the Camden city detective bureau, announced that detectives knew who killed Eighth Ward political leader "Mose" Flannery and held warrants for his arrest, as 2500 mourners turned out for the solemn high requiem mass at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.
A Camden Evening Courier photograph of part of the crowd around Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Broadway and Ferry avenue, as six "pals" bore the body of murdered Eighth Ward political worker Joseph "Mose" Flannery into the church for a solemn high requiem mass.
Enos B. Dellmuth, 43, civic leader, former Ninth ward councilman and foreman of the June term Camden county grand jury, died at his home at 426 Chambers street after a stroke suffered at the jury's last session. Camden Courier-Post, September 10, 1928.
A fruit dealer named Caruso, of 1131 South Fourth Street, practiced his truck driving on the freshly groomed baseball diamond at Broadway and Everett Street and was fined $50 plus $50 for repairs. Camden Courier-Post, April 25, 1928.
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.
Joseph "Polack Joe" Devon, who shot and killed Joseph Cimini of Philadelphia in the Sixth Ward Republican Club at 908 Broadway, entered a plea of not guilty to a manslaughter charge before Judge Samuel M. Shay.
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.
Howard J. Dudley, Broadway furniture merchant, was nominated unopposed as president of the Camden Rotary Club at a meeting in the Hotel Walt Whitman, the Camden Courier-Post reported April 4, 1928, along with the club's other nominations for officers, directors and conference delegates.
Although still technically charged with murder in the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph ("Polack Joe") Devon was released from the Camden county jail under $2,500 bail fixed by Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Varbalow, without Judge Samuel M. Shay or Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott being consulted.
Rev. L. S. Moore, new pastor of Trinity M. E. Church at Broadway and Spruce street, and Mrs. Moore were given a reception by members of the church.