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John H. Evans, 64, of 2117 Sherman Avenue was sentenced to three months in jail for stealing a watch from painter Albert L. Hawkins at 805 Cooper Street, judged by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
Arthur Benjamin, 28, of 430 Liberty Street, was held for a police court hearing after his car struck and overturned C.R. Finney's machine at Twenty-third and High Streets. Finney, of 201 Cooper Street, was treated by Dr. A. Lincoln Sherk.
Dr. and Mrs. Max Ruttenberg of 303 Cooper Street announce the engagement of Mrs. Ruttenberg's sister, Miss Harriet Blieden of Philadelphia, to Max Kahener of Philadelphia.
Social column noting summer returns and graduations in the Cooper Street neighborhood, including Miss Betty Dickinson of 931 Cooper Street returning from Syracuse University, and the Wilfred W. Fry children graduating in New York and Massachusetts.
Uniformed Veterans to Join Lodge Members in Colorful Ceremonies Arrangements are completed for the Flag Day celebration to be held tonight by the Camden Elks Lodge Lodge at Seventh and Cooper Street s. The program will open at 7.30 p.m. Doors of the lodge room will be opened to the public at 7:15 p. m. The program will be broadcast over WCAM .
Social notice: Mrs. Thomas P. McConaghy of Tenth and Cooper Streets is registered at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, Atlantic City.
Leading real estate brokers and notables in other callings paid high tribute last night to Edward J. Borden in honor of his election as president of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
Camden Courier-Post - June 8, 1933 Elaborate Ceremonies Monday Night Will Be Open to Public An elaborate Flag Day celebration to be open to the public and broadcast over the radio is planned by Camden Elks for Monday night.
Newly Elected President of Commission Will Be Honored at Dinner Edward J. Borden will be guest of honor tonight of the Camden County Real Estate Board at a banquet in honor of his election as president of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission.
Furnished-room classified advertisements (classification 117) from the Camden Courier-Post, June 7, 1933, including a listing for 572 Benson Street.
Classified advertisement: attractive furnished room for a gentleman at 319 Cooper Street, with modern conveniences and an ideal location. Camden Courier-Post, June 7, 1933.
Funeral notice for Harry A. Wille, 55, of 933 Cooper Street, who died after a short illness. He was employed in the upholstery department of the J. B. Van Sciver Co. and is survived by his widow Ida and son Henry C. Wille, 3rd.
Clinton Gilchrist, 25, of 1153 Cooper Street, was held in $100 bail on suspicion of operating a numbers lottery. He was arrested at 11th and Cooper Streets with numbers slips and loose coins in his possession.
Funeral notice for Michael Benson, 52, of 939 Cooper Street. Mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception; burial in Calvary Cemetery. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Sidell, and a brother.
Camden police Capt. A. Lincoln James and Detectives John Painter and Thomas M. Stanger were granted pensions, and Mrs. Rose Caputi of 1263 Park Boulevard, widow of Detective Joseph Caputi, received a widow's pension.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of June 18, 1932 listing the directors and officers of the First Camden National Bank & Trust Co., with F. Morse Archer as president, and its offices at Broadway & Sycamore, Broadway & Cooper, and 223 Market Street in Philadelphia.
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.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital on December 28, 1931, including William May, 48, of 2118 Berwick Street, treated for bruises of chest and ribs after falling down stairs.
Ben Courter's 1931 Camden Courier-Post reminiscence of four leading South Jersey physicians — Drs. Godfrey, Iszard, Davis and Gross — recalling how Dr. H. H. Davis transformed health care for Camden's schoolchildren.
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
Advertisement for Jos. H. Murray and Son funeral home at 408 Cooper Street, Camden, and 114 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights. Camden Courier-Post, October 15, 1931.
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.
Rollie Waterhouse, Joseph McKenna and Ralph Endt, on trial for the November 21 Hotel Camden holdup, testified they were gambling in Gloucester; the state called three taxi fares, among them Joseph Dent of 318 Taylor Avenue.
Camden Courier-Post, August 2, 1929: five people, four of them relatives of David Baird, Jr., were hurt when Robert Brice's car overturned near Freehold; none was critically injured.
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.
With two Assemblymen taking the highest stations, Camden Lodge of Elks will tonight install recently elected officers at the home, Seventh and Cooper streets. The ceremony will be presided over by Past Exalted Ruler James H. Long.
Opening advertisement for the Bloom Apartments at 311 Cooper Street, developed by Segwyn Realty, Inc. — 34 units, rentals $40 to $75 per month, open for inspection February 5, 1928.
Baird Boulevard property owners protested being taxed for tree planting and traffic island grading while Cooper Street property owners challenged road-widening assessments before city commissioners.
Two youths were arrested after a running gun battle on Cooper Street. Merritt Hall, 17, of 514 Ray Street, and Philip Schatz, 19, of 214 Arch Street, were charged with attempted larceny of an automobile; Schatz faced an additional charge of carrying a concealed deadly weapon.
Wright Cox, a Camden fireman and policeman for more than 40 years, died in Homeopathic Hospital in his 66th year. His funeral was set for the Schroeder Funeral Chapel at 538 Broadway, with interment in Bethel Cemetery.
Seven classified business notices from the Camden Post-Telegram of February 14, 1920, including a sign painter named Goldy at 21 Wood Street.
Councilman Charles H. Greer, superintendent of the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company, was badly beaten while trying to stop three men from stealing his automobile outside the Helena apartments at Third and Cooper streets.
David Baird, State Assessor and Republican leader of South Jersey, following his annual custom, held a Christmas reception Christmas morning at his handsome home in Cooper Street, Camden. Prominent politicians, citizens and persons in all walks of life to the number of 500 greeted Mr. Baird.
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.
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.
A Philadelphia Inquirer "Camden News Notes" column of September 2, 1904, reporting the deaths of Annie Smith of 308 Mechanic Street and Daniel Bromley of 1500 South Tenth Street, and the injury of 12-year-old Benjamin Eppinger of 1159 Federal Street, jolted from a brewery wagon at Twelfth and Federal Streets.
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 31, 1904 After several weeks' illness from progressive paralysis, Charles Watson , one of Camden's best-known citizens, died at his home at 223 Cooper street , shortly after 9 o'clock last night.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden personal notes, including Florence Ivins of 648 Locust Street celebrating her fifteenth birthday and a farewell reception for Rev. Joseph Garrison of Asbury M. E. Church.
Michael McCusker, superintendent of the Union News Company at the Federal street station, was shot in the abdomen at his home, 206 Benson street, and died at Cooper Hospital; his wife Florence McCusker was charged with his murder.
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.
Extra driver George Wade of Camden's Engine Company No. 2 had his left leg broken when thrown from the engine while responding to an alarm in 1897; the fire was at the Temple College Academy, 534 Penn Street.
Real Estate Investment Co. advertises 124 Clay Street for rent — 4 rooms at $6.00 per month — along with other Camden properties. Camden Daily Telegram, March 11, 1897.
The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles the Camden Y. M. C. A. in 1896: its history since organizing at a house at Front and Cooper streets, its new gymnasium and swimming pool at Broadway and Federal streets, physical instructor A. G. Villee's methods, and the association's officers.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news: barking dogs frightened burglars from James Croker's saloon at Fourth and Jasper Streets, and John L. Lattimore of 1120 Locust Street broke his leg jumping from a car in the Bulson Street yard.
Camden News column from the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1894. Notes residents at 429 Cooper Street in 1894: Joseph J. Read and family.
Camden Post, June 3, 1891: the trial of Joseph Logue of 129 Birch Street for assault and battery on Sarah Louwin ended in a not guilty verdict after the jury was out ten minutes.
Camden Daily Courier - November 15, 1890 Many Houses Now Being Erected Camden builders do not seem to be deterred by the fear of financial panic or an idea that the McKinley bill presages disaster in business.
James Cox has begun six two-story brick houses on Cox Street, below Second, as part of a broader construction boom across Camden. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1888.
The Quarter Sessions Court trial of John F. Stratton and Henry Mellon, charged with the May 6, 1888 knife and blackjack attack on Joseph Logue near Starr's crossing, Tenth and Line streets, with testimony from Logue, Miss Sarah Lewine, Christopher Smith, Dr. Henry Jarrett, Charles R. Locke and Knight Haines.
Camden Daily Courier, May 8, 1888: Policemen Peters and Anderson arrest John Stratton and Henry Mellon on suspicion of assaulting Joseph Logue near the city hall.