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Private First Class Louis Bontkowski of 1191 Liberty Street, Camden, NJ served with Company A, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, joined the division in April 1944 in time for the D-Day landings, and died of wounds on September 13, 1944. He is buried at St. Joseph Cemetery, Gloucester Township, NJ.
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Davis Street runs southeast from north of Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in the East Camden/Morgan Village area, named for Dr. Henry Hill Davis — Camden's first medical inspector and School Medical Inspector in New Jersey.
The Zuni Athletic Association sponsored semi-pro sports teams as early as the spring of 1930 and into the early 60s. It appears to have founded in that year.
A December 1970 Camden County Record notice of St. Joseph's parish New Year's Eve party, sponsored by the Holy Name Society in the grade school lower hall at 10th and Liberty Streets, Camden.
The War Department's June 13, 1944 casualty list named fifteen South Jersey men killed and two missing, among them Corporal Stephen V. Koscianski of 966 Bulson Street, Camden — one of twelve on the list who had been lost with the troopship HMT Rohna in the Mediterranean seven months earlier.
A June 1939 Camden Courier-Post account of Kobus Twilight League baseball, in which St. Joseph's Polish routed the Polish American Citizens Club, 13 to 1, at Broadway and Everett Street, and Campbell's Soup beat the Twelfth Ward.
A Camden Courier-Post report of October 29, 1935: Sue Carroda of 2040 Arlington Street told Police Judge Lewis Liberman that Leon Lokaj was the father of her child, after earlier clearing another man.
Edward C. Dillon and Edward Brennan were held without bail by Recorder Cleary on charges of atrocious assault with intent to kill, after Policeman Robert Ward was shot investigating suspicious men near Sixth and Everett streets.
Camden firemen were called to a three-alarm fire at Hugh A. Greenan's stables on South 7th Street just before marching to Captain Martin B. Carrigan's funeral, and to a drugstore fire on Everett Street on their return.
Marriage license notices issued by the Camden City Clerk in October 1913, including Madeline Brion of 656 Grant Street.