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Miss Annie Pauline Alberts, daughter of Isaac Alberts of 705 Kaighn Avenue, was married to Philip Sihisky in the synagogue of the Sons of Israel, Fourth and Liberty streets, Camden, with Rabbi David Shane officiating.
Four Camden firemen were injured when Chemical Engine No. 2 overturned after its front wheels caught in a trolley switch at Second Street while it was answering an alarm at Front Street and Kaighn Avenue.
The Camden County Law and Order League renewed its complaints against forty-eight liquor sellers who escaped indictment, hinting that political pull had saved them, and gave the grand jury a list of accused saloonkeepers including several on Kaighn avenue.
Captain Stanley arrested storekeeper Charles H. Green at Tenth and Kaighn Avenue and Albert Matchett at Front and Kaighn Avenue on charges of violating the policy laws; policy slips and drawings were found on Green.
The Camden Fire Commissioners voted to accept the new fire house on Kaighn Avenue near Sixth Street, as three new hose carriages arrived at the East Side fire house.
Charles Thomas of 1872 Milton Street and Patrick Hayes of 3 James Court, laborers for the Vulcanite Paving Company, were struck by a trolley car at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue but not seriously injured.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of July 31, 1899: Theodore Shaw of 434 Henry street sent home from Cooper Hospital after a stabbing, a tandem-bicycle scorching arrest on the Mt. Ephraim pike, and a gasoline-stove fire at Albert K. Snyder's restaurant at 311 Kaighn avenue.
Camden police arrested Joseph Dole, Joseph Hyde, Adam T. Davis and A. B. C. Smith on the charge of having slot gambling machines in their business places; the machines were confiscated and the four were to have a hearing before Recorder Nowrey.
Camden's Recorder heard a miscellaneous crowd of offenders, among them Archie Robinson, charged by his wife with disorderly conduct, and Knight Wood of Philadelphia, sent to the hall for indecent conduct on a Kaighn avenue ferry boat.
Police raided a house at 624 Kaighn Avenue, one of the "New York Flats," and arrested proprietress Rosie Woolford and four others; arraigned before the Mayor, she pleaded not guilty and her bail was fixed at $800.
Robert Taylor shoots Sumner Derrickson in a gambling dispute on Baxter Street; Derrickson taken to Cooper Hospital, Taylor arrested at the Federal Street ferry.
City Counsel Morgan found that a law allows Camden to issue $200,000 in bonds for repaving, and petitions circulated to lay sheet asphalt on Market, Federal, Kaighn, Broadway, Haddon and Cooper streets, with the Camden and Suburban Railway sharing the cost.
Police Officer Hyde captures Charles Monroe and Alfred Robinson of 705 Baxter Street for stealing two hats from William Ross at Fourth and Kaighn Avenue.
The August 1896 heat killed Mrs. Kate McAllister, 29, of 587 Clinton Street, Camden, and prostrated Charles Thompson of 503 Arch Street, James Peterson of 927 Kaighn's Avenue, and Stewart Bakely of Third and Cherry streets.
Camden saloon keepers charged with Sunday liquor selling, among them James Croker of Fourth and Jasper streets and John Murschell of Broadway and Jefferson street, pleaded not guilty before Mayor Westcott; Chief of Police Dodd was the complainant in all the cases.
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.
'Sweeney' Derrickson arrested on Baxter Street for shooting at Charles Burton three times; Sergeant Harvey disarms the gunman after a chase.
Camden police chased and captured two employes of R. T. Robinson & Co. caught carrying lard and hams from the firm's packing house at Second and Pine streets, while burglars rifled the safe of Samuel K. Hires's store at 310 Kaighn avenue and the city's Hebrew merchants prepared to organize for self-protection.
Coroner Tomlinson's inquest into the murder of Lizzie Copelaine in her store at 620 Kaighn Avenue heard testimony from County Physician Iszard, Lieutenant John S. Smith and others; the jury held Charles Jordan responsible.
Within hours, Camden saw a murder confession, an assault on 19-year-old Mary Morrison at her family's grocery at Kaighn Avenue and Baring Street, and two burglaries — one by chloroform.
Alexander Briscoe slashes Charles Jordan with a razor during a poker dispute; Briscoe located at 922 Baxter Street and arrested by Officer Butts.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 12, 1891: saloonkeeper William Gallagher of 106 Kaighn avenue pays his Sunday-selling fine, the Rev. J. Livingston Allen of the Kaighn Avenue Methodist Church marks his silver anniversary, and Thomas Guthridge sues the West Jersey Railroad Company for $10,000.
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 19, 1891: local Camden items, including a burglary at J. Hermann's tailoring establishment at 1120 Broadway, the start of cars on the new Fourth street line, and Mayor Pratt holding William Kemble in $500 bail on a policy-writing charge.
Philadelphia Inquirer - December 16, 1889. Adolph Meyers, of 1109 Emma street, who attempted to kill himself late Saturday night, is locked up at the City Hall; a christening at Mount Ephraim and Kaighn avenues ends in a free fight.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden County roundup of April 2, 1889: Mrs. Rebecca Wright, mother-in-law of City Recorder Braker, dies at 255 Kaighn avenue aged 85, and Walter Kelly is committed as the burglar who stole $339 and a gold watch from John Dugan of Front and Pearl streets.
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 13, 1889. Democrats and Republicans shed blood in a Camden magistrate's office: there was almost a riot in the office of 'Squire Davis, on Kaighn avenue below Broadway.
An 1888 Camden Post advertisement in which builder Wilson Ernst offers new 7-room and 4-room houses for sale near the South Street and Kaighn Avenue ferries.
James Cox has begun six two-story brick houses on Cox Street, below Second, as part of a broader construction boom across Camden. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1888.
A fire at Henry B. Wilson's kindling-wood works on South Front Street above Kaighn Avenue spread to neighboring homes and businesses, causing about $14,000 in losses.
A December 1881 Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news: the annual election of officers of Post No. 37, G. A. R., with Christopher J. Mines, Jr. as Quartermaster, a delay in paving Federal Street with Belgian blocks, a new bridge planned across Cooper's creek on State Street, and other local items.
The first night boat between Camden and Philadelphia was put on July 4, 1842, by the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company, the last boat leaving Camden at 9:00 PM and Philadelphia at 9:30 PM.
The Camden Cemetery, known in modern times as Old Camden Cemetery, adjoining the Newton Friends' burying grounds, through an action of a town meeting of the Township of Camden, was founded on March 10, 1836.