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Twelve soldiers from Camden County, NJ died when the troop transport HMT Rohna was struck by a German guided glider bomb and sank off the coast of North Africa on November 26, 1943 — one of the greatest maritime disasters of World War II.
Arlington Street in South Camden ran one block and virtually disappeared after demolition in 2004. The street was home to working-class families, the General Gas Mantle factory (which caused thorium contamination), and became an EPA Superfund site in 1996.
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.
Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.
Obituary of Thomas E. Oxley, 65, formerly of Jefferson Street and Dudley Street, Camden, who died January 23, 1972.
Obituary of Martha Bostic, 89, of 950 Jefferson Avenue, who died November 27, 1971. She was a 46-year member of Bethel AME Church and the widow of Camden policeman Thomas H. Bostic.
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.
Edward Saunders, 28, of 520 Jefferson Street, a Public Service station-master, was struck by lightning at a telephone switchboard and treated at Cooper Hospital.
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.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for Howland Croft, Sons & Co., the Linden Worsted Mills, established 1880, manufacturers of fine worsted yarns with offices and mills at Broadway and Jefferson Avenue, Camden.
Charles Kabanski, 39, of 885 Jefferson Street, was accused of firing a revolver at children and at Policeman Johnson during his arrest, and sentenced to three months in jail.
Peter Bolione, 36, of 915 Jefferson Street, suffered a compound arm fracture when a pneumatic drill kicked at the New York Shipbuilding plant.
City Solicitor E.G.C. Bleakly moved to acquire Delaware River street ends for Camden, filing Supreme Court suits over the ends of Jackson, Vanhook, Jasper, Emerald, Viola, and Winslow streets near Jefferson Street.
Philadelphia Inquirer death notice for Mary R. Croker, wife of James P. Croker, who died July 7, 1908, in her 39th year; her funeral was held from her husband's residence at Broadway and Jefferson ave., Camden.
A slight fire at the Dunn Oil Cloth Works in South Camden badly burned Charles Hampton, and Fire Chief Elfreth's runaway carriage horse wrecked the Story Furniture Company awning and ran over Harry Haines, a blind fife player, in August 1906.
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.
A Camden Post-Telegram death notice column listing recent funerals, including Mary A. Mowery, 58, of 360 Jefferson Avenue.
The Howland Croft & Sons Company erected a 235-foot chimney at Broadway and Jefferson Avenue — the tallest stack in Camden.
Edward Oswald fatally stabbed his wife and six-year-old daughter at 926 Jefferson Avenue and then cut his own throat; a second daughter escaped with a neighbour's help. Police Captain Stanley ordered the bodies removed to the home of Mrs. Oswald's brother.
South Camden news items from October 14, 1895: the Camden Horse Railroad Company took the summer cars off the Broadway line, R. H. Comey took out a permit for an addition to the dye works on Jefferson street, and Mayor Westcott gave two men five days for congregating at Eighth street and Kaighn avenue.
Howard Johnson of 934 Jefferson Street, driver of a coal wagon that ran over 3-year-old Hugh Birchall, was held by Mayor Westcott pending the child's recovery.
Theodore Lambert, held in the murder of baker William G. Kairer, was charged with two robberies including the theft of a watch and purse from Mrs. Frances Hutt of 908 Jefferson Avenue.