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Wildwood Avenue runs through Camden's Parkside section from Haddon Avenue to Park Boulevard, west of Baird Avenue. Many prominent Camden citizens lived there, especially in the 1500 block near Camden High School and Forest Hill Park.
Theodore and Leon Emerle of 1530 South Tenth Street were caught pulling waterlilies at Forest Hill Park lagoon by guard Crawford Smith; their parents were ordered to pay for the destroyed plants.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of October 12, 1917: an address at North Baptist Church, the funeral of Mrs. Anna Greenan, wife of Hugh Greenan, from 412 Viola Street, and a Y.M.C.A. service at Forest Hill Park.
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.