Tag
Responding to a fire alarm, the carriage carrying Assistant Chief George Cox and Driver Seth Monnell struck and ran over Dennie Ryan at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue; at Cooper Hospital he was found badly cut and bruised but not seriously injured. Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24, 1909.
James Foster, father of the late Camden Chief of Police John Foster, died at the home of his son-in-law, Ferdinand Ketterer, 1117 Broadway, after a lingering illness. He had worked in the Water Bureau for nearly two score years.
Drs. Donges and Grant E. Kirk began building sixteen dwellings on Viola Street near Broadway, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on November 24, 1908.
The Camden Excise Board revoked the liquor license of Nicholas Verratti, jailed after his conviction for keeping a disorderly house at his saloon at 842 Locust Street, and granted license transfers to several other saloonkeepers.
Philadelphia Inquirer death notice for Mary R. Croker, wife of James P. Croker, who died July 7, 1908, in her 39th year; her funeral was held from her husband's residence at Broadway and Jefferson ave., Camden.
Brief items from Camden: the Excise Board transferred two liquor licenses; suspicious men were chased from the Pavonia car yards; William Kniesle of 322 North Thirty-sixth Street broke his wrist while working on his naphtha launch.
City on Saint Valentine's Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning "Slow Town" Across the River Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.
Peter Gondolff Witnesses Encounter in Which "Copper Head" Snake is Killed Presents the Victor To Charlie Rouh Eating lunch in a skirt of woods along the White Horse pike, yesterday, "Pete" Gondolff, a lineman, who lives in the Eight ward, had his attention drawn to a commotion in a small clump of bushes a few feet distant.
Camden policemen George Horner and Lyons and Special officer Robert Miller searched the premises around Fourth and Cooper streets after 1 o'clock in the morning for a suspicious character, who had earlier been seen near Broadway and Carman street, but he had disappeared.
The Bridgeton Evening News describes the funeral of Camden Policeman Isaac "Ike" Toy, held from his home at 604 South Third Street and attended by Mayor Charles H. Ellis, Chief of Police Elisha A. Gravenor and fifty officers, with interment in Harleigh Cemetery. During the procession Policeman Alonzo Dyer collapsed at Broadway and Berkley Street.
The Camden Daily Courier's South Camden personal notes of December 24, 1906: George Staib of 1308 Broadway recovering from an operation, the Fireside New Year Association's parade route, and a Christmas family reunion at the Broadway home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert James.
A race riot is narrowly averted at Broadway and Mt. Vernon Street when Harry Gedling fires a pistol; Policeman Fiore Troncone gives chase and Acting Chief Schregler orders crowds dispersed.
Contractors tearing up Broadway near the Newton Creek to lay underground conduits for the Bell Telephone Company were called off after Street Commissioner Mohrman objected that City Council had not yet approved the burying of the wires.
With a golden spade, Mayor Charles Ellis dug the first earth at Broadway and Sycamore streets, Camden, where a large theatre costing about $100,000 was to be erected.
A slight fire at the Dunn Oil Cloth Works in South Camden badly burned Charles Hampton, and Fire Chief Elfreth's runaway carriage horse wrecked the Story Furniture Company awning and ran over Harry Haines, a blind fife player, in August 1906.
A full day's Camden news for July 27, 1906, including Police Captain Stanley's capture of George Willingmire, wanted for a stabbing at Ninth and Chestnut Streets, after a desperate struggle on the way to jail.
Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton.
The Camden Post-Telegram reported that Recorder Stackhouse suspended sentence on Harry Holmes after trolley conductor H. Selby's account of a fight over a missing penny was disputed by Policeman Howard Smith and Freeholder Larry Rhoades.
Camden briefs for February 19, 1906, including Captain Stanley's raid on Fannie Clark's house at 847 Locust Street, where the officers expected a wagon load of prisoners but found only the proprietress.
Policeman Albert Keaser was severely injured when an automobile ran him down at Broadway and Chestnut streets, Camden; Policeman John Brothers arrested the occupants, Alexander and Leon Rudolph, who were discharged after the affair was shown to be accidental.
Mrs. Amelia Fisher, 47, of 947 Woodland Avenue, was struck by an Atlantic City Railroad express near Broadway and Bulson Street while picking coal with her three children; she escaped with a back cut, and passengers showered the children with coins.
Sergeant Schregler is sent to Washington, D.C. to retrieve 15-year-old Charlotte "Lottie" Helm; Driver Peter Carter of Engine Company No. 1 is injured when his engine strikes a trolley car at Broadway and Federal Street.
The directors of the Camden National Bank will hold a meeting next Wednesday, when arrangements will be made for the erection of the new building at Broadway and Sycamore street.
It Is Believed That a Female Accompanied Thieves Who Wrecked a Big Safe in a Grain Elevator on the Outskirts of Gloucester GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J.
The Eighth Ward Republican Club's reception in the chapel at Broadway and Emerald street drew about 200 couples; the grand march was led by Alfred Snow and Mary Collins. Camden Post-Telegram, April 21, 1904.
County Detective John Cherry was struck by a westbound Haddonfield trolley car while crossing Federal street at Broadway in Camden; hurled about a dozen feet, he escaped with a few bruises and torn clothing.
Camden briefs for November 18, 1903: the funeral of John Guthridge at 814 Linden Street, a gas explosion at the Public Service Corporation coke works, and the death of Mrs. Mary Peschmann at 1130 Broadway.
Cecelia Simons, 20, of 1113 Locust Street, was committed by Justice Baldwin on a charge of obtaining a suit of clothes under false pretences from installment dealer S. Lewis of Broadway.
Dr. Francis J. Bickers, of 1701 Fillmore Street, saw an elderly man fall from a stroke of apoplexy on Broadway near Vanhook Street; the man was recognized as Arthur M. Sitley, of 506 Broadway, founder of Sitley & Son's grain elevator at Sixth and Chelten Avenue, and his condition was critical.
Chester Gandy, Walter Bunting and Ernest Schuesse were arrested in Camden charged with inciting to riot after a disturbance at an Indian show at Broadway and Viola Street.
Col. George G. Felton, real estate dealer and former City Treasurer, was found dead of gas in his office in the Felton building at Second and Federal streets. The same Camden Daily Courier column reported the sudden death of Walter C. Fish, florist of Broadway and Spruce streets.
An open-air meeting of the Camden branch of the Socialist party at Broadway, Newton Avenue and Mt. Vernon Street was stopped by order of Mayor Hatch. Chief Foster, Captain Stanley and twenty-five patrolmen dispersed the crowd.
Camden's policemen and firemen make their first formal turnout in review, drilled to a military carriage; the Philadelphia Inquirer describes the procession, its officers, and the growth of the departments since 1862.
Camden householders and businessmen complained of poor gas and electric service at high prices, and of the Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company's pole-raising. Philip Burch drove off a pole gang with hot and cold water, and property owners prepared to demand revocation of the company's franchise before City Council.
Camden Lodge, No. 293, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is established in its new home at Broadway and Federal Street, valued with its furnishings at $50,000. The Philadelphia Inquirer describes the club house and lists the lodge's officers.
The Howland Croft & Sons Company erected a 235-foot chimney at Broadway and Jefferson Avenue — the tallest stack in Camden.
Boys playing with matches behind the Market House on Federal Street started the biggest fire in Camden's history on May 13, 1900, destroying nearly half a hundred buildings along Federal Street and Taylor Avenue before four Philadelphia engine companies helped master it.
Francisco Abbatto, convicted of the murder of Genaro DeFeo near Blue Anchor, was hanged at the Camden County Jail on May 10, 1900, the first hanging conducted by Sheriff John Wesley Sell; the gallows stood in the loft at the Broadway and Federal streets corner of the building.
The Camden County Law and Order League renewed its complaints against forty-eight liquor sellers who escaped indictment, hinting that political pull had saved them, and gave the grand jury a list of accused saloonkeepers including several on Kaighn avenue.
The Fredericks property at Broadway and Federal streets was being fitted up for Camden Lodge of Elks, with the work expected to be completed in about a month.
William Knox, a hackman, was arrested for assaulting his estranged wife Jennie Knox at 810½ Broadway, Camden. Police Captain Stanley, drawn by her cries for help, took Knox into custody.
Camden police arrested Joseph Dole, Joseph Hyde, Adam T. Davis and A. B. C. Smith on the charge of having slot gambling machines in their business places; the machines were confiscated and the four were to have a hearing before Recorder Nowrey.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden personal notes of March 12, 1899: County Detective John Cherry recovering from a frozen face, the Fireside New Year's Association's new officers, and the organization of the Camden Camera Club at 926 Broadway.
The Sixth Ward Republican Club will give out 400 loaves of bread from its headquarters at 908 Broadway, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will distribute 200 loaves in the afternoon at the W. C. T. U. Hall on Benson street above Fourth.
City Counsel Morgan found that a law allows Camden to issue $200,000 in bonds for repaving, and petitions circulated to lay sheet asphalt on Market, Federal, Kaighn, Broadway, Haddon and Cooper streets, with the Camden and Suburban Railway sharing the cost.
Camden's mummers turned out in greater force than ever on New Year's Day 1897, as the George S. Dilmore, Fireside and J. H. Trainer New Year's associations paraded and crossed to Philadelphia to compete for prizes, while the Y.M.C.A. on Federal street kept open house and "Long John" Gallagher fed the poor of South Camden.
The funeral of Mrs. Susan Moffett, wife of City Hall janitor Charles C. Moffett, was held from her son Henry Moffett's residence at 602 Broadway, with city officials serving as pall bearers and interment in Harleigh Cemetery.
July 1896 Philadelphia Inquirer real-estate advertisement from Chas. S. Newkirk & Co., 615 Broadway, offering houses at 531 Berkeley Street, 539-41 Roberts Street and 1138 Marion Street.
William James, brother of fireman Albert James, fell from a ladder while working on a house on Ferry Avenue below Broadway and broke his wrist.
Plans were accepted for the new Catholic Lyceum Association Building to be erected at Broadway and Federal Streets by the members of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, with work to begin about May 1. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 1896.