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Pupils of St. Joseph's School, East Camden, rehearsed the rural musical comedy "Watch Yer Step" for performances on June 15 and 16, 1933 in the school auditorium at 29th Street and Westfield Avenue.
Sergeant Thomas J. Murphy and switchboard operator Joseph "Si" Pedigree of 49 South Twenty-seventh Street were among 13 Camden policemen and firemen retiring on pension before the first of 1933, and Mayor Roy R. Stewart said none of the vacancies would be filled. Camden Courier-Post, October 8, 1932.
East Camden clubwomen planned a rose tea party, an outing to Ocean City and a pilgrimage to Fairmount Park at the closing meeting of the season at the clubhouse, 33 North Thirtieth Street.
More than 200 friends and clergymen attended the June 1932 farewell dinner at St. Joseph's School, East Camden, for Rev. William J. Brennan, newly appointed pastor of St. Cecelia's Church at Iselin.
A June 1932 farewell party for Rev. William J. Brennan, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in East Camden, transferred to St. Cecelia's Church at Iselin; Bernard J. Tracy served as toastmaster.
A June 1932 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for Prince Concrete Co., contractors and builders at 212 N. 38th Street, offering garages, porches, drives, waterproof cellars, steps, walks, curbs, lawn seats and bird baths.
Mystic Chapter No. 148, Order of the Eastern Star, announced its monthly card party for the following evening at the East Camden Woman's Club, 33 North Thirtieth Street, with Mrs. Kathryn Radd as chairman of the committee on arrangements.
Advertisement in the June 1931 Purple and Gold, the Camden High School yearbook, for C. F. Johnston, painting and decorating, 14 Church Street, Camden, N. J.
Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall East Camden used to have three parks "in the old days" — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.
Funeral services for John Kaelin, who died Saturday, will be held at 2 o'clock on Tuesday at the home of his son, John Joseph Kaelin, 321 North Thirty-ninth Street, Camden. He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Kaelin. Burial in New Camden Cemetery.
Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
A March 1930 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for Prince Concrete Products, Inc., makers of concrete blocks, at 212 North 38th Street in East Camden.
The Sodality of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, East Camden, staged a minstrel show in the parish's new school hall at 29th Street and Westfield Avenue on June 27, 1929, with music by the Black Cat Serenaders.
A nephew, John Donahue, contested the will of Nicholas Joseph Donahue, a former East Camden restaurant proprietor who had kept a restaurant on Federal Street near Twenty-fourth, before Judge Samuel M. Shay in the Camden County Orphans Court in September 1928, with executor Raymond Donges defending the will.
Camden Courier Post - September 19, 1928 By TOM RYAN Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a boxing shot at the Convention Hall , Vincent Forgione, of Philadelphia.
East Camden Lightweight is Rapidly Developing Into Windup Performer Joe Spearing , of East Camden , who meets Joey Michaels, Riverside slugger in the eight-round semi-final to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana bout at Public Service Park on Friday night, is rapidly fighting his way into the windup class.
Edwin Grimmer, 10, of 2204 Howell Street — the neighborhood's "broken arm champion" — fractured his left arm in two new places at Cooper Hospital after an earlier double fracture had healed.
Commissioner Clay W. Reesman denied Harry P. Pelouze's charge that leftover lighting funds were shifted to another department, saying the city simply lacked money for the extra lights the Broadway Business Men's Association wanted.
Financial Institution Backed by East Camden Interests Faith in the progress of East Camden is reflected in announcement of the organization of the Third National Bank and Trust company , the city's newest banking institution, to be opened in April or May in a building at the northeast corner of Twenty-seventh Street and Westfield Avenue .
'Five-and-Ten' to Occupy Proposed Building at Twenty-Sixth St. F. W. Woolworth is invading East Camden with his "five and ten.
Fond Parent Seek Honors For City's First 1928 Baby Who is Camden's first 1928 baby? A contest which nearly every employee of the city health department is earnestly watching has been started in the bureau of vital statistics in city hall .
Third District police sought James W. Clymer to tell him his home at 60 North Thirty-second Street — which he had left for Merchantville two days earlier — had been broken into and the furniture left behind damaged.
Isaac M. Shreve, a Camden policeman for nearly forty years, was fatally stricken with apoplexy while answering a false-alarm call at Thirty-sixth and Federal streets in June 1926. He had served in the fire department, been shot by a robber twelve years earlier, and spent his last eighteen years on duty in East Camden.
A column of East Camden notes for November 9, 1923: lodge and V.F.W. meetings at William Penn Hall and Red Men's Hall, and word that Mrs. William L. Adams of 414 North 27th Street was recovering from a serious illness.
Mounted Policeman Harold Hubbs of 201 North 27th Street returned to duty after his horse stumbled and threw him during a Saturday-morning chase near the Harry Sharp School, but his injured leg forced him home after two hours.
Victor Floyd of Eufaela, Alabama, employed at the packing station of the Jersey Fruit Growers' Association and living at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Asay at 110 North 27th Street, was taken to Cooper Hospital by police ambulance and operated on for appendicitis.
"Gus" Allenback, proprietor of the East Side Ice Company at 418 North 27th Street, appeared on the street with a new ice delivery truck in September 1923.
District Detectives Shlam and Hurlock and Acting District Detective Raymond Stark answered a report of a riot at Thirtieth and Pleasant streets in East Camden. Officer Hurlock's wrist was gashed by a broken bottle, severing an artery; five men were arrested.
The family of Richard Cox at 117 North Twenty-first Street was roused at 5 a.m. by smoke from a chimney fire; the roof briefly caught flame but damage was limited to $50.
A Philadelphia Inquirer death notice for George A. Lange, 52, husband of Elsie Lange, who died May 28, 1922 in Detroit; the funeral was held from his father's home at 10 South 32nd Street in Camden.
Hundreds lined the streets and firehouse bells tolled as the cortege of Captain Martin B. Carrigan passed through Camden to Arlington Cemetery, escorted by ninety-two firemen under Chief Peter B. Carter.
Mrs. Eliza C. Jackson of 2206 Howell Street sued the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for $50,000, alleging permanent injuries from a charged wire while rescuing three children.
Marie Elsie Neumann married George W. Taylor, Jr., at 24 Church Street, Camden, in the room in which she was born. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 9, 1921.
Organizers Announce Sale of 600 Shares of Stock Prominent East Camden citizens are forming the East End Trust Company and at a meeting of the organization committee yesterday secretary Leon Todd presented a report showing that 600 shares of the 1000 shares of stock have been subscribed for.
Permits for thirty-eight new brick dwellings on Leonard Street were issued by Building Inspector Day in March 1919, in a recently-developed section of East Camden.
Funeral notice for Caroline Laib, widow of John Laib Sr., who died in her 68th year at 2401 Howell Street in March 1918.
Local briefs from Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1917: Miss Eveline Pratley of 221 North 38th Street lost three fingers in a machine accident at 38th Street and Westfield Avenue. Also: a tugboat injury, a business incorporation, and a child's broken arm.
When Mrs. Charles W. Garrison awoke at 112 North 30th Street, East Camden, she found her 76-year-old husband had died in his sleep. Coroner Pratt attributed death to apoplexy, noting he had been dead several hours before she woke.
Charles R. Evans, 19, of 139 South Thirty-second Street in East Camden, broke through the ice on the lake at Forest Hill Park and drowned while 300 fellow skaters looked on. Four would-be rescuers — Harry Haas, Graham Wishart, Wilbur Crane and Matthew Yingling — were dragged from the freezing water by a park guard and a policeman.
Camden police detained Herman Walters pending an autopsy after his 19-year-old bride, Florence Walters of 2010 Howell Street, died of gas inhalation following a quarrel in September 1916.
Captured at the Keystone Hotel in Chester, Pennsylvania, fugitive murderer Wilson Ashbridge waives extradition and is driven back to Camden by Captain of Detectives William Schregler, his wife beside him.
Yuli Edelmeyer, 4, of 1222 North 18th Street, East Camden, died at Cooper Hospital after her dress caught fire while she played with her brothers at the open grate of a stove. Joseph Becker, an oil wagon driver, smothered the flames but the child's injuries proved fatal.
Mrs. Ambrose Faust of 138 North Twenty-second Street found her six-month-old son John had smothered to death after snuggling into the bedcovers.
Camden police investigated two fires that threatened four vacant dwellings at 2611–2617 Howell Street — the former Enterprise Hall — believing tramps sheltering there had started them in October 1915.
Man Sent to Hospital, Wife to Jail, When Aim of Latter at Howling Animal Fails The bad aim of Mrs. Ella Taylor, aged 25 years, of 3010 Pleasant street , East Camden, resulted in lots of trouble and incidentally sent her husband, William, aged 49 years, to Cooper Hospital , with a severely cut head.
Edward Finn, 17, of 2617 Howell Street burglarized a home at 564 North 27th Street and leaped from a second-story window to escape before being arrested, in July 1915.
An East Side note recording the death of Frank W. May, the five-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William May of 2105 Berwick Street, with interment at New Camden Cemetery.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
William May pleaded guilty to threatening the life of Elsie Staley and was sentenced by Judge Joline to three months in the Camden County Jail.
Nicholas Small was taken into custody by Special Officer Troncone on suspicion of maltreating Elsie Staley, the girl whose refusal had led William May to attempt suicide.