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Lucy Dean Wilson, who taught music, public speaking and dramatics at Camden High school for 37 years beginning in 1896, recalls her career as former pupils plan a testimonial dinner for her at the Walt Whitman hotel on April 22.
Funeral notice for John A. Bryson of 922 North Front Street, a member of Camden Lodge 111, Loyal Order of Moose.
Maurice Hertz, 90, former Camden liquor dealer, founder of the Camden Bottling Co. and the Mt. Ephraim Sand Co., and oldest member of the Camden Lodge of Elks, died at his home at 1316 Park Boulevard.
Death notice for Clarence Yapp, 66, of 623 North Front Street, who died suddenly at his home early on a Sunday; Coroner Leonard said the cause of death was heart trouble.
A three-alarm fire swept the S. S. Kresge building at 29-33 Broadway, threatening Camden's central business district; five firemen were burned, and a second blaze at the Camden Foundry Co., Front and Elm streets, called out the city's remaining fire companies.
Air war hero Staff Sgt. William "Bill" Kelly was honored by more than 200 friends and neighbors at the First Ward Republican Club, 47 York Street, March 1944.
Newly appointed Camden fireman John Gryckiewicz pulled a flaming rope from around a 50-gallon gasoline drum aboard the tug Pacific at the American Dredging Company docks in December 1940, preventing an explosion.
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced the appointment of three Camden policemen and four firemen in November 1940; among the new firefighters was John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street.
Courier-Post, December 26, 1939: Camden police doubted the "brawl" explanation for the fatal shooting of Eighth ward political worker Andrew Scarduzio in a Bellmawr taproom.
Florence Gottwald, 26, of 1036 Segal Street, lay near death in Cooper Hospital after Emil Mascher, 46, a suitor she had spurned for three years, shot her 10 times in front of her home and then waited at Front and Erie streets to be arrested.
Funeral notice for Mrs. Louisa Weber, widow of William Weber and a pioneer member of the Church of the Holy Name, of 922 North Front Street, a North Camden resident for more than 30 years.
Two men escaped serious injury when their 10-ton truck, loaded with paper rolls, was struck by a freight train at Front and Spruce streets.
Dr. Claude B. Phillips, a Collingswood physician, was arrested on a charge of performing an illegal operation on Nora Williamson, 18, of 625 North Front Street, whom Patrolman John V. Wilkie had found during a routine check of rooming houses.
Camden Courier-Post - Feburary 4, 1938 Four persons in a small coupe were injured last night when the machine crashed into a pole at Seventeenth Street and Admiral Wilson Boulevard during a dense fog.
Those of us who knew and esteemed the late H. Bart McHugh, Sr., recall the many-fold fine attributes of the man who was the heart and spirit of the annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia for so many years.
At a first-ward rally at 528 North Front Street, John H. Jones promised residents a "new deal."
Three women arrested in illicit liquor raids, including Mrs. Sarah Dowling of 7 Wood Street, were given a four-day respite in Camden police court when Judge Garfield Pancoast ordered police to produce the stool pigeons who made the buys.
Camden Courier-Post, July 11, 1933: the Kaighn's Point fire destroyed or damaged the C. B. Coles and Sons lumber yard and seven houses on Knight and South Front streets, leaving 23 people homeless.
Furnished-room classified advertisements (classification 117) from the Camden Courier-Post, June 7, 1933, including a listing for 572 Benson Street.
Pensions for six Camden policemen and 17 firemen took effect January 1, 1933, as proposed salary cuts prompted the requests; Inspector Charles T. Humes refused to withdraw his application.
Some 400 people crowded the home at 916 North Front Street for the funeral of William "Shooey" Bonner, killed by gangsters' bullets; the casket was borne to New Camden Cemetery.
Mrs. Rose Cinerelli and her daughters Teresa and Mary were evicted from 633 North Front Street and taken in by the city welfare department.
A loaded double-barreled sawed-off shotgun was dug out of a sewer at Second and Federal streets; Detective Robert Ashenfelter tried to link it to guns stolen from the William Stein hardware store and to the holdup of Freeholder Leonard Brehm's saloon.
Funeral notice for John T. Johnson of 530 North Front Street, survived by his wife Mildred.
John Doris, 30, a Philadelphia gangster, was tried, convicted and sentenced by Judge Samuel M. Shay to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison for the April 29 shooting of Joseph Connors in Kaighn avenue near Broadway; his wife fainted in court as the penalty was set.
Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin barred spectators and ordered a heavy guard for the Criminal Court trial of alleged racketeer John Doris, charged with shooting Joseph Connors near Broadway and Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.
Discharged from West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, Joseph Connors of Gloucester refused to identify John Doris as the man who shot him in a brawl over a girl on Broadway near Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.
John Doris, brother of the electrocuted Frank Doris, was arrested after Joseph Connors of Gloucester was shot in front of the American Restaurant, 506 Kaighn avenue, near Broadway; a police roundup netted 10 men held as material witnesses.
Captain John Golden, head of the Camden city detective bureau, announced that detectives knew who killed Eighth Ward political leader "Mose" Flannery and held warrants for his arrest, as 2500 mourners turned out for the solemn high requiem mass at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.
A Camden Evening Courier photograph of the saloon property at 101 Kaighn Avenue, on the northeast corner of Front Street, where Eighth ward political worker Joseph "Mose" Flannery was shot after a scuffle inside the barroom.
A 1928 Camden Evening Courier report on the burglary of three Haddon Avenue offices, where $350 was blown from a safe and linked to the Flannery shooting.
The funeral of Thomas J. Daley, Sr., father of Thomas J. Daley, city engineer of Camden, will be held from his late residence, 1471 Baird avenue, on Wednesday. Daley was known as one of the oldest blacksmiths and wheelwrights in the city.
Funeral notice for Elmer W. Lofland, 32, son of the late John C. and Elmira Lofland, held from the residence of his brother Clayton Lofland at 808 North Front Street.
Phillipo Del Guerra of 124 Market Street found his missing 17-year-old daughter Margaret with Lino Bataloni of 613 North Front Street at Ardmore; both were arrested.
Fireman Frank Bott of the North Front Street company was bruised and slightly injured fighting the fire that gutted the Kohlenberg stables on the river front.
Mrs. Jane H Dukes of 3803 Westfield Avenue was fatally stricken with heart disease while sitting on her porch; also a child struck by a motorcyclist, a wedding at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and the incorporation of the Sturdevant Corporation.
A follow-up noting the American Art Glass Company strike was settled and the men returned to work.
Twenty men struck the American Art Glass Company at Front and Kaighn Avenue over contract prices; police were called to head off trouble with strikebreakers.
A storm broke many window panes at 317 and 319 North Front Street.
William Boots, 55, of 325 North Front Street fractured two ribs in a fall while closing his shutters and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Andreas Beck, Camden's veteran barber, retired in March 1915 after fifty-nine consecutive years in business at 116 Federal Street, where his customers included Senator William J. Sewell and, once, President Benjamin Harrison.
Two Camden firemen, James McDade and William Simpson, were overcome by smoke at a $4000 fire at the West Jersey Carriage Works, 15 to 21 Market Street, in April 1913.
Mrs. Anna Mellon, 77, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Mary Knobbe at 315 North Front Street from a fall that fractured her hip.
A brief item noting George Bretinstein, of Front and Elm Streets, was nursing a badly sprained leg.
Samuel Johnson of 526 North Front Street, driver of the downtown ambulance, sprained his ankle in a fall at home.
Death notices for two Camden octogenarians — Peter Wolverton, 80, of 615 North Front Street, father of former state senator Charles A. Wolverton, and John W. Cotner, 81, of Vine Street.
Christian Gienger, a Camden saloonkeeper of 952 North Front Street, drowned off Chester when his naphtha launch was run down on the Delaware; his body had not been recovered.
John Humes, a driver for J. R. Carson, a grocer of Third and Birch streets, was thrown beneath his wagon and had his shoulder broken in a runaway that aroused Camden's business section.
Samuel Gahan of 521 North Front Street, a member of William B. Hatch Post No. 37, G.A.R., died early that morning.