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A police probe failed to fix the cause of the Bell and Evans poultry warehouse fire near 27th and Pleasant streets, which drove 30 families from their Howell Street homes and killed more than 10,000 chickens in May 1934.
Camden fireman John C. Voll of 1230 North Nineteenth Street was involved in two successive accidents that injured four people near River Road in June 1933.
Charles H. Nelson, 86, a wood finisher of 2812 Howell Street, suffered a fatal heart attack while walking with his sister at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets in June 1933.
Three East Camden youths were arrested on suspicion in the early morning hours of March 21, 1932 after police said they failed to explain why they were near Twenty-fourth and Howell Streets at 1:30 a.m.
Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
Camden Courier-Post - March 12, 1930 Found guilty of carrying a gun, Richard H. Morrow, 24, of 2319 Howell Street , as fined $150 by Judge Shay in Criminal Court yesterday. He will be permitted to pay the fine in installments.
Bus Kills Husband Returning Unexpectedly, From Distant Work Fate and the heavy wheels of a bus turned to tragedy a surprise planned by Arthur Hickman, 45, of 2021 Howell Street , for the wife he had not seen for five weeks.
Advertisement for the Pavonia Ice and Coal Co., Louis W. Everly, proprietor, main office and yards at 23rd and Howell Streets, Camden, from the Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook, January 1930.
Edwin Grimmer, 10, of 2204 Howell Street — the neighborhood's "broken arm champion" — fractured his left arm in two new places at Cooper Hospital after an earlier double fracture had healed.
Mayor Frank S. Van Hart swore in nine new Camden policemen, one from each of nine wards — including Edward C. Hahn of the Tenth Ward — with five more appointments to follow.
Mrs. Eliza C. Jackson of 2206 Howell Street sued the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for $50,000, alleging permanent injuries from a charged wire while rescuing three children.
Funeral notice for Caroline Laib, widow of John Laib Sr., who died in her 68th year at 2401 Howell Street in March 1918.
Camden police detained Herman Walters pending an autopsy after his 19-year-old bride, Florence Walters of 2010 Howell Street, died of gas inhalation following a quarrel in September 1916.
Camden Post-Telegram - July 18, 1916 Promises to Mend Erring Ways and Heartily Thanks Recorder.
Camden police investigated two fires that threatened four vacant dwellings at 2611–2617 Howell Street — the former Enterprise Hall — believing tramps sheltering there had started them in October 1915.
Edward Finn, 17, of 2617 Howell Street burglarized a home at 564 North 27th Street and leaped from a second-story window to escape before being arrested, in July 1915.
George Laws and Edward Thomas, 22, of 413 North 28th Street, admitted ripping a water pipe from a vacant house at 22nd and Howell Streets and attempting to rob the home of Frederick Voigt at 222 North 32nd Street, where they were caught by a neighbor.
Mrs. Charles Conner of 2407 Howell Street was painfully injured tripping over a suitcase while alighting from a trolley at 24th and Federal streets in November 1910.
Mrs. Charles Conner of 2407 Howell Street was injured while alighting from a trolley car at Twenty-fourth and Federal Streets, tripping over a suit case left standing in the aisle. Policemen Pedigree and Johnston carried her into a nearby restaurant.
Smoke from the Connor house at 2407 Howell Street caused a rubbish fire alarm on August 7, 1909.
Charles Greening of 2407 Howell Street was badly injured at a ball game on July 30, 1908.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, the first Catholic parish in East Camden, was founded in 1893 at 25th and Howell Street and celebrated its Golden Anniversary in 1943. A new church built in 1952 at 2907 Federal Street became St. Joseph's Pro-Cathedral.