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Two Camden teenagers suffered serious injuries in separate falls on October 16, 1912 — William McGinnis fell from a roof on 12th Street and William Cutdalis fell from a tree while gathering chestnuts at his home on 31st Street.
A brief 1912 Philadelphia Inquirer item reporting that two-year-old Julia Macks, one of the celebrated Camden triplets, gashed her leg on a nail at 1701 Hale Street.
Dogs sent George Farmer, 46 years old, of 978 Woodland Avenue, and George Zimmerman, 5 years old, of 564 Auburn Street, to Cooper Hospital. Farmer was bitten on the arm, while the boy had his wrist torn.
John Schulke of 1212 Thurman Street and Charles Mufler of 1103 Haddon Avenue were injured about the head and hands when a heavy plank fell from a crane at the Dialogue ship yards; both were taken to Cooper Hospital.
Camden briefs for August 11, 1911, reporting that friends of Police Captain Stanley were arranging to go to New York to greet him on his return from a three months' trip abroad.
Cooper Hospital cases reported July 19, 1911, including William May, 21, of 1819 Federal Street, treated for an incised wound of the lips cut by a piece of bottle.
After a quarrel, Daniel Burns, 33, of 412 Viola Street twice tried to end his life by inhaling gas and was saved by physicians at Cooper Hospital.
Arnold Pascoe, 22, of 434 Viola Street fell thirty feet from a battleship at the New York Shipbuilding plant and was treated at Cooper Hospital for a fractured skull, a compound fracture of an arm and internal injuries.
William May was discharged from Cooper Hospital days after slashing his breast over Elsie Staley's refusal to marry him; no charge of attempted suicide was brought against him.
William M. May, a young Indian living behind 1819 Federal Street, slashed his chest with a penknife after Elsie Staley, 14, refused his marriage proposal for a second time at Christmas.
Tumbling down the hold of a vessel at a north Camden shipyard, Harry Sandell, aged 56 years, of 333 North Tenth street, dislocated his right shoulder and was injured about the head. He was taken to Co
A 1910 Philadelphia Inquirer report on the Alpha Club raising $500 for Katie Macks, the Camden widow at 1702 Hale Street raising one-year-old triplets after her husband's death.
Camden briefs for August 10, 1910, including the severe burning of Elmer Wright of 1639 Broadway in a vat of molten lead and nitric acid, and the theft of two silver cups from the Synagogue Sons of Israel at Eighth and Sycamore streets.
Four Camden residents suffered heat prostration on June 23, 1910, including Anna Connor, 17, of 209 Byron Street, treated at Cooper Hospital.
Camden Post-Telegram, May 20, 1910: fireman Arthur Wingate, driver of the combination chemical and hose wagon, passes a restless night at Cooper Hospital after the team crashed into an iron column of the elevated railroad at Haddon Avenue and Line Street.
Philadelphia Inquirer — April 2, 1910 ** In memory of Policeman Casper Hart, who was fatally injured in a collision between a trolley car and the Second District patrol wagon at Broadway and Benson streets , flags at all the station houses were placed at half mast yesterday and the headquarters of the Second district police draped in mourning.
L. Headley, 50, of 604 Federal Street, Camden, was taken to Cooper Hospital with a broken leg after a fall on the ice.
A 1909 Philadelphia Inquirer report on the destitution of a Camden widow at 1701 Hale Street, left with newborn triplets after her husband Stanley Macks died at Cooper Hospital.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of August 7, 1909: Humphrey Lynch of 410 Viola Street treated for a Fourth of July cannon-cracker wound, a drowning in Cooper Creek, a car-barn injury, and the deaths of Benjamin Derndinger and George Westcoat.
Seven-year-old Robert Bell of 682 Woodland Avenue was in critical condition at Cooper Hospital after his clothing caught fire while he was playing with matches.
Leon Branch, 24, of 816 Locust Street, was slashed in a row with a woman at Third and Cherry Streets and treated at Cooper Hospital, but refused to press a charge against his assailant, Lulu Parks.
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.
A column of Camden news items, including the nomination of officers for the Camden Police Pension Fund — with Edward Hyde nominated recording secretary — the funeral of George Bird, and the death of William Baldwin of 510 Kaighn Avenue.
Nellie Chambers, 5, of Wood Street, was treated at Cooper Hospital for a head contusion after falling from a chair (Camden Daily-Courier, July 29, 1908).
A mixing-tank explosion touched off a disastrous fire that swept the N.Z. Graves Paint and Varnish Company plant on Twelfth Street, Camden, between Linden and Federal streets — destroying more than half a million dollars in property, injuring three, and driving families from their homes. (Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908.)
John Humes, a driver for J. R. Carson, a grocer of Third and Birch streets, was thrown beneath his wagon and had his shoulder broken in a runaway that aroused Camden's business section.
William Smith, 23, of 419 Clinton Street, fell on the sidewalk at Seventh and Benson Streets from an attack of heart disease and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Camden briefs for July 15, 1907, opening with Captain Stanley's early-morning raid on 139 Chestnut Street and the arrest of alleged proprietresses Bessie Heisler and Emma Carll.
Mrs. Leon Sanoski of 1146 Sycamore Street died at Cooper Hospital under suspicious circumstances while her husband sat in the county jail. Captain Stanley had found her unconscious at home; her ante-mortem statement alleged eight years of weekly beatings.
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 13, 1906 ** The flag poles on all the fire houses need painting. ** City Hall . Cooper. Pyne Point and Forest Kill parks were thronged yesterday. ** Open-air services were held by several of the churches yesterday.
John Daubman of 904 Fairview Street, Camden, whose legs were crushed by a locomotive he was repairing at Cape May, died in Cooper Hospital after a special train carried him 78½ miles in 70 minutes.
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.
William Cooper of 27 North Twenty-first Street died of laudanum poisoning at Cooper Hospital; police sought the writer of a mysterious note found in his pocket after he sat unnoticed for hours in a Federal Street saloon.
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.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news for May 16, 1906, including a planked shad dinner at Chew's Landing attended by Mayor Charles H. Ellis and city officials, plans for a new daily newspaper, and Dr. Ernest Ramsdell's rescue of a boy from beneath a team of horses.
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.
Charles Worthington Accuses Edgar Bolton of Assault Fireman Edgar Bolton , former foreman Engine Company No. 5 , of Camden, was arrested by Captain of Police Albert yesterday, on a charge of atrocious assault and battery preferred by Charles Worthington , a member of the same company.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news for January 17, 1906, including the burial of former Mayor J. Leighton Westcott from his home at 221 North Third Street, and a girl's hand crushed in factory machinery at Ninth and Market Streets.
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.
An attempted robbery at John Carroll's saloon at the northeast corner of Third and Cherry Streets left Ernest Baker shot and wounded; Frank Johnson was captured and a third man escaped.
Camden briefs for August 25, 1904, closing with Captain Stanley's raid on a South Third Street house kept by Pearl Welcome, in which six people were arrested.
Six workmen are hurt when storm-weakened walls collapse at Park's storage warehouse on Haddon Avenue; Sergeant of Police Hyde, who lived nearby, sends in the emergency call and the men are taken to Cooper Hospital.
Camden's Fourth of July in 1904 passed without serious accidents; eight people were admitted to Cooper Hospital, and flag raising and Pyne Point Park exercises were held.
An explosion of mysterious origin wrecked the Independent Fireworks Company plant at Ferry and Cooper avenues in Camden, killing four workmen and injuring others; officers of the company were arrested on manslaughter charges.
A Philadelphia Inquirer "Camden News Notes" column of May 3, 1904, reporting the funeral of William H. Shearman from his home at 33 Haddon Avenue, Mayor Joseph E. Nowrey's thank-you exchange with Philadelphia's mayor over firemen's help at the Victor talking machine plant fire, and a small carpenters' strike.
John Jamison, 20, of 680 Woodland Avenue, a pitcher, broke his arm above the elbow while throwing a curve ball during a game at Seventh and Fairview Streets. Cooper Hospital doctors said a sudden twist caused the fracture.
Camden Post-Telegram, September 2, 1903: neighbors on the 700 block of Pine Street, struck by appendicitis, typhoid, a factory injury and diphtheria in three weeks, believed their row of houses was "hoodooed."
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.