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More than 500 boys club and Little League members will be guests at an amateur boxing show at Convention Hall to benefit the Frank H. Ryan Drop-A-Buck Club, with sponsors solicited by a committee headed by Police Insp. Anthony Skolski.
The Drop-a-Buck Club began distributing collection containers to Camden taverns to raise Christmas funds for needy families, and Chevrolet dealer William Rohrer offered a new showroom on Federal Street at 15th as campaign headquarters. Camden Courier-Post, November 6, 1953.
Courier columnist Charles L. Humes, author of Life Hereabouts, died Friday night at Hahnemann hospital in Philadelphia at age 46, following an operation. Courier-Post obituary by James M. O'Neill.
Charley Humes's "Life Hereabouts" column of May 14, 1949, recalling the Broadway Cycle-Union basketball team that won the South Jersey semi-pro championship on April 11, 1924, and announcing the first reunion of its players, later the First Ward Club, that night at Kenney's Restaurant, with Ott Laxton among those named.
Three Camden schoolgirls won the city's first annual Dressmaking and Doll Dressing Contest in February 1938, including Evelyn Stevenson of 406 North 40th Street, and departed on a two-day New York City excursion as their prize.
Abe Corotis reports on the South Jersey Umpires' Association, organized by Frank Ryan and led by William J. Judd, as it began its second season with 24 members, Neil Deighan among them.