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Mrs. Anna E. Boulton died at her home, 949 North 36th Street. A native of Philadelphia, she had lived in Cramer Hill for a year. She was survived by her husband Edgar S. Boulton, three daughters, a son, a sister, and five grandchildren.
Camden Courier-Post notice of the solemn requiem Mass for Corporal John J. Gorman of 1040 North Nineteenth Street, killed at Aachen, Germany, held at St. Anthony of Padua Church in November 1947.
Page 27 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: a Camden Draught Beer advertisement, advertisements for Vincent's Super Service at 936-8 Newton Avenue and Nardello at 2311 Federal St., around an installment of the parish history telling how Alfred Cramer developed East Camden after 1874 and how early Catholics there went to Mass.
Excavation began at River Road and State Street for a $1,677,000, 306-family defense housing project to be known as William Stanley Ablett Village. Camden Courier-Post, June 11, 1942.
The Camden Housing Authority awarded four contracts totaling $1,224,841 for 306 homes on the Moro Phillips tract, to be known as the William Stanley Ablett Village. Camden Courier-Post, April 25, 1942.
A March 1942 account from "Housing in Camden" of how the Camden Housing Authority's third public housing project — a $1,409,000 development designated N.J. 10-2 — was funded, and how the rule was set that it be named for a Camden native killed in action.
The Camden Housing Authority announced U.S. Housing Authority approval of a $1,566,000 defense housing project of 306 units on the south side of East State Street between Cooper Creek and River Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, January 17, 1942.
Boys and girls who attended the Community Center at 2818 River Road were to be the Center's guests at a picnic at Garrison's Lake, with former Mayor Frederick von Nieda in charge of the boys and Mrs. Noel Magnus in charge of the girls. Camden Courier-Post, July 26, 1941.
On February 16, 1941, a fire and explosion at 28th Street and Adams Avenue in Cramer Hill killed a father and son and critically burned a third family member.
Possibility of amending existing statutes providing state aid for elimination or grade crossings to permit financing, an underpass in Cramer Hill was suggested by City Commissioner Hartmann to State Senator Burling and Assemblymen Lawrence H. Ellis and Millard E. Allen at the weekly legislative forum.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Corporal Mathews-Purnell Post No. 518, V.F.W., marked its sixteenth anniversary with a banquet at O'Donnell's Restaurant in February 1938; Mrs. Carrie R. Bean was among the guests.
An open-air meeting of the Cramer Hill Businessmen's Association at Veterans Park praised local business, with Mayor Frederick von Nieda among the speakers; prizes were awarded including a vacuum cleaner to George Blanck of 1026 North Twenty-first Street.
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.
Camden Courier-Post - January 26, 1928 Mystery Baffles Police as No Bullet is Found Inside Shop CLEAN HOLE IS CUT THROUGH DOOR GLASS Camden's " phantom sniper " has made his appearance in Cramer Hill .
Organization of the Eleventh Ward Women's Republican Club was completed with the election and installation of officers at headquarters, Twenty-seventh Street and Wayne Avenue. Mrs. Louise Mote was elected president.
Robert Black, driver of a Cramer Hill bus, was twice sent to police headquarters in one day by Traffic Officer Raymond Stark at Twenty-sixth and Federal streets for failing to produce a jitney bus driver's license.
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1912: Alfred Cramer, real estate developer of Cramer Hill, dies at his home at 433 Penn Street, and William K. Hurff of the Security Trust Company dies in Pasadena, California.
East Camden police were notified that Frank Handwerker, 10, of 2738 Polk Avenue, North Cramer Hill, had been missing for nearly three weeks, having disappeared in a similar manner several months before.
Firemen "Bobby" Gick , Scott, Franklin , Israel Adams , and William Randall and Adam Hinkle, who went on a fishing trip down the bay to Ship John Light, on board the sloop yacht, William B. Hill, have returned with a good coat of tan and plenty of the denizens of the deep, including a big mess of crabs.
John Daltman and George Wells were attacked by a fish hawk while gunning along the North Cramer Hill shore in East Camden, and shot the bird after a desperate battle. Freeholder Funfer, William Pepeta Jr., Samuel Arnold and Louis Mote had similar experiences with hawks along Petty's Island within a few days.
East Side police and court items from Camden, including the robbery of Charles Eckler of Polk Avenue on the North Cramer Hill ferryboat and the placing of new Gamewell police boxes in the East side.
Death notice for Mary J. Ballinger, widow of Joshua Ballinger, who died May 29, 1899, aged 82, with funeral services at the home of her son-in-law William L. Frazier, 2717 High Street, and a second service in Salem, N. J.
Harry Hansom reported to the Camden police that his boarding mistress and fiancée, a Mrs. Carll of 2728 Polk Avenue, North Cramer Hill, had disappeared with a $54.63 check he gave her to cash, and that all the furniture was gone from the house.
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.
Death notice for Emily L. Brill, aged 30, wife of John Brill and daughter of Wm. H. and the late Emily J. Baldwin, with funeral services at her husband's residence, 2816 High Street, Cramer Hill, and interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news items from August 3, 1894, including a fire at an empty house on Liberty Street in which Fireman John A. Dold of Engine No. 3 was injured.
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.