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Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
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.
Grant Street is a street in Camden, New Jersey, named after Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and 18th President of the United States.
Edwin Thomas Mills was born on April 13, 1891, in Ossining, New York, to Jacob and Katie Mills. His father worked as a shoemaker.
Funeral services for Camden City Detective Edwin T. Mills, who died at Atlantic Shores hospital, Somers Point, were set for his residence at 240 Eutaw Avenue. Mills had been injured in a March 1943 collision of a police radio car and a bus at Broadway and Mickle Street.
The Tenth Ward Republican Organization Club named committees for its tenth annual ball, held February 28 at Eagle's auditorium on Broadway. Earl Wright served on the program committee.
The arrest of Crawford Smith on numbers-writing charges brought to 10 the number of people apprehended that week in Camden's numbers-racket crackdown, running alongside the investigation into the murder of Detective William T. Feitz Jr.
Walter Hart, 25, of 1245 Thurman Street was held in $5,000 bail on a charge of operating a numbers lottery on a complaint signed by City Detective George Zeitz.
A victory parade after a bitter Eighth Ward Republican primary set off a street riot at Sixth and Viola Streets in front of William Tansky Jr.'s saloon; a boy was hit by a ricocheting bullet and detectives questioned the rival faction leaders.
Three Liberty Park youths, including John Malik, 15, of 1295 Everett Street, faced police court hearings on charges of loitering with intent to steal after Detective George Zeitz arrested them near a car from which 900 cigars had been stolen. Camden Courier-Post, August 9, 1933.
Camden Courier-Post - June 29, 1933 Louis Fox, 23, of 2406 Federal Street , whose unsuccessful attempt at suicide landed him in Cooper Hospital suffering from inhaling gas fumes, is out of danger.
Residents of the 900 block of Howard Street were thrown into turmoil when Charles Bensley, 73, brandished a pistol at his tenant Mrs. Anna Morgan while seeking overdue rent. A bystander from 217 Erie Street helped apprehend him.
Detectives raided a florist shop at 1409 Mt. Ephraim Avenue used as a blind for a numbers lottery, seizing adding machines and slips and arresting Joseph Klosterman and three others, including Charles Selanski of 1286 Sheridan Street.
Beaten Awning Maker Says $47, Not $4700, Was Taken From Pocket Three men accused of kidnapping, beating and robbing Byron P. Cobb , 62, of 427 Benson Street , yesterday were held without bail for the grand jury by Police Judge [Garfield S.] Pancoast after they pleaded not guilty.
Camden Courier-Post - June 5, 1933 Byron P. Cobb , 62, the "Sun Doctor," was kidnapped by three men early yesterday, beaten and robbed of $4700 before, being tossed from a moving automobile in Farnham Park.
Detainer Lodged Against Sportsman in Shooting of Waterhouse A detainer against Russell "Buck" Sage , held in Gloucester on a hit-run charge, was lodged last night by Camden police, who claim the South Camden sportsman "knows more than he has told" of the shooting of Harry "Gyp" Waterhouse.
George Rumble, Al Dubowski and Frank Marcone were arrested at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue after Bernard Franz of Philadelphia accused them of robbing him and Robert Tully under pretense of showing them where to get beer.