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A 1926 retrospective recalling William Cooper's 1906 laudanum suicide in Cole's barroom on Federal Street — 20 years after he sat dead in a chair for six hours while a pinochle game continued around him.
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.
Raymond R. Snape of 2826 Cramer Street carried his baby to safety and summoned firefighters after unattended burning meat filled the house with smoke. No real damage was done beyond the smoke.
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.
Firemen from the station at 27th and Federal Streets were called to extinguish a chimney fire caused by soft coal soot at 401 North 41st Street on the evening of March 17, 1923 (the Saturday before this Monday, March 19 report); no damage resulted.
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.
Cases treated at the Homeopathic Hospital in Camden on October 28, 1922, including William May, 48, of 2110 Berwick Street, treated for lacerations of the elbow.
Charles E. Hemphill, a former asylum inmate, confesses to abducting three-year-old Carl Carlin of East Camden; Captain Schregler moves to have him adjudged insane and returned to the asylum.
Constable William Cramer died of gunshot wounds sustained while serving a writ of attachment at Tuckahoe; vaudeville actor Harry Batchelder was arrested at Audubon by Captain of Detectives William Schregler and Detective Fiore Troncone.
Firemen connected with the Twenty-seventh and Federal streets engine house, Camden, were taken by some surprise when one of their number, Israel Adams announced he had been promoted a captain, and ordered them to get ready to accompany him to another house.
With the body mounted on the auto supply wagon, the funeral of Fireman Harry C, Anderson, who died in Cooper Hospital from injuries received in being thrown from the auto truck in responding to an alarm of fire a couple of weeks ago, took place yesterday from his home at 1147 Federal street, Camden.
Camden Post-Telegram - May 3, 1916 Hurt in Truck-Trolley Crash He is Dangerously Ill at Cooper Hospital.
Mrs. Margaret Williams, aged 41, of 125 Birch Street, was so severely shaken up when trolley cars bumped at the Federal Street ferry that she was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Harold S. Woodin, 15, of 632 Clinton Street was accidentally shot in the side in September 1914 by 14-year-old John C. Voll of 1143 Federal Street, while the two boys played with a revolver in the cellar of the Woodin home.
Answering an alarm for a fire at Allan Palmer's home at 2205 Sewell Avenue, the East Side truck company collided with a team at Twenty-fourth and Federal Streets.
Recorder Stackhouse heard a Decoration Day array of offenders in Camden Police Court — among them Elizabeth Evans, Michael Walsh, and a fracas between Andrew McCready and Harry Ivins of 210 North Twelfth Street. (Camden Post-Telegram, May 31, 1913.)
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.
Thomas Armitage and Kelly Parker of 526 South Third Street, electricians at the Pennsylvania Railroad power house at the foot of Federal Street, were burned about the eyes, hands and face when a wire short-circuited.
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.
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.
William May was locked up in the county jail on a charge of threatening the lives of Elsie Staley and William Rose after he found her in Rose's company.
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.
Mrs. Charles Conner of 2407 Howell Street was painfully injured tripping over a suitcase while alighting from a trolley at 24th and Federal streets in November 1910.
Mrs. Charles Conner of 2407 Howell Street was injured while alighting from a trolley car at Twenty-fourth and Federal Streets, tripping over a suit case left standing in the aisle. Policemen Pedigree and Johnston carried her into a nearby restaurant.
Five applications for transfers of retail liquor licenses, including George W. Fry's at 29 North Third Street, were listed for hearing before Camden's Excise Commission in October 1910.
Camden briefs for March 11, 1907, including Captain Stanley's raid on an alleged speak-easy kept by James La Moeno at 812 South Third Street, where beer, wine and whiskey were confiscated.
Local notes from East Camden: Nicholas Donahue elected to Board of Trade; Harry Lake ill at home; Ezra Wallace of 38th Street and Westfield Avenue confined to home with sickness; James N. Lloyd of 2831 Concord Avenue seriously ill with pneumonia.
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.
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.
The Camden Excise Commission granted a retail liquor license to Andrew Miller at 1423 South Tenth Street and approved several other license transfers.
Joseph Welsh of Sparta, Virginia was robbed of $15 and a gold watch by two footpads near the ruins of the Fries-Breslin carpet mill on Ferry Avenue.
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle street s, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets , had her clothing cut in strips.
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.
The Fire Committee of Camden City Council appointed a slate of new firemen — among them Martin Carrigan — ahead of the completion of the new fire house at Twelfth and Federal streets.
Elsie M. Fisher and William B. Craig of East Camden were married in June 1904 at the bride's home, 3024 Federal Street, by the Rev. George T. Harris of the Asbury M. E. Church.
Jennie A. Craig of 206 South Thirty-second Street was attacked on Federal Street in January 1904, knocked down a six-foot embankment and choked; her assailant fled when her screams continued, and her brother's search led police to a clue.
Five armed desperadoes hold up a bridge tender, blow up a safe at the Pavonia station, and battle police across East Camden before escaping.
Col. George G. Felton, real estate dealer and former City Treasurer, was found dead of gas in his office in the Felton building at Second and Federal streets. The same Camden Daily Courier column reported the sudden death of Walter C. Fish, florist of Broadway and Spruce streets.
Camden householders and businessmen complained of poor gas and electric service at high prices, and of the Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company's pole-raising. Philip Burch drove off a pole gang with hot and cold water, and property owners prepared to demand revocation of the company's franchise before City Council.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's account of a destructive fire along Taylor Avenue in Camden, started by boys playing with matches, which drew Philadelphia engines across the river.
Francisco Abbatto, convicted of the murder of Genaro DeFeo near Blue Anchor, was hanged at the Camden County Jail on May 10, 1900, the first hanging conducted by Sheriff John Wesley Sell; the gallows stood in the loft at the Broadway and Federal streets corner of the building.
Sad and Sudden Death of Mrs. Beulah Abbott Last Evening This community will be shocked to know of the death of Mrs. Beulah Abbott, wife of Benjamin Abbott, and mother of Town Clerk William S. Abbott and Chief Robert Abbott .
Successful Raid on an Alleged Pool Room in Camden Seven Men Captured Keefer, Who Says He Spent His Employers' Money in the Place, Identifies the Prisoners The Camden police yesterday raided the alleged poolroom at 25 South Third street, where Walter H. Keefer, former manager of the Merchantville Light and Power Company, claims he lost $254, belonging to his employers.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of December 22, 1898: an incorporation, a missing boy, a burglary, a man charged with stealing overcoats and captured at the Federal Street Ferry, and city officials and policemen down with the grip.
Philadelphia Inquirer - January 7, 1898 HARRY J. SCHAEFER STEPPED ON A LIVE WIRE AND DIED IN AWFUL AGONY.
Robert Taylor shoots Sumner Derrickson in a gambling dispute on Baxter Street; Derrickson taken to Cooper Hospital, Taylor arrested at the Federal Street ferry.
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 18, 1897 William Lore was arrested in Stockton late Saturday night, charged with threatening to Shoot Israel Adams , proprietor of a saloon on Federal street .
An 1897 Camden Post-Telegram report of the malt-drink licenses granted and refused by the Court of Common Pleas, including Henry Garren at 27 South 4th Street.
Real Estate Investment Co. advertises 122 Clay Street for rent — 4 rooms at $6.00 per month — along with other Camden properties. Camden Daily Telegram, October 9, 1895.