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Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
FRANK MESTER, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER 4th AND ARCH STREETS . This is one of the most widely known houses in the town, it having had an established reputation for the sale of unadulterated wines and liquors.
Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.
Ferry Avenue, originally called Ferry Road, was opened in 1820 and runs from Kaighnton in South Camden through Stockton Township to Mount Ephraim Avenue. It was converted to a toll road in 1859 and reverted to the city around 1875.
Police and detectives swept disorderly houses across South Camden in one of the largest raids of the period, led by Capt. Lewis Stehr.
Henry Thomas and "Brownie" Jones were arrested at 636 Locust Street by Detectives Moffett and Murry as suspects in the highway murder of Francis Martin Hageney at Twenty-seventh Street and Marlton Avenue.
William Burns, 33, of Philadelphia, was arrested at 308 Benson Street, Camden, by Detectives Moffett and Murray on a charge of desertion and held by Recorder Stackhouse pending requisition papers.
Carl Green, 23, of 268 Spruce Street, admitted robbing Lawrence Lamaina's place at Locust and Spruce Streets and was committed to jail by Recorder Stackhouse after his arrest by Detectives Moffett and Murry.
Police located two more witnesses in the Karl Kellmann murder case: Berthold Neuman of 2813 High Street, who crossed the Twenty-seventh street bridge shortly before the shots, and railroad man Stewart Dahm, who was confronted by Duffield near Twenty-sixth street.
Detectives Painter and Moffett identify William Haggerty of 2806 Carman Street as the man who crossed the Twenty-seventh street railroad bridge just before Karl Kellmann's murder; he spoke to Duffield there and went on without being interfered with.
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.
City Detective Harry C. Moffett and Mrs. Sarah Kindy, of 721 Kaighn Avenue, were injured in a rear-end collision between two trolley cars at Ann Street and Kaighn Avenue, Camden; Dr. Paul N. Litchfield attended Mrs. Kindy.
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.
The Camden Daily Telegram's account of the Police Committee's hearings on charges against city policemen, at which Dr. “Mark Hanna” Davis was noted as absent from the Reformers' deliberations.
The funeral of Mrs. Susan Moffett, wife of City Hall janitor Charles C. Moffett, was held from her son Henry Moffett's residence at 602 Broadway, with city officials serving as pall bearers and interment in Harleigh Cemetery.