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Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."
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.
Eighth Street runs south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Morgan Boulevard to Pyne Point in North Camden — one of Camden's longest thoroughfares.
West Jersey and Cooper hospital admissions for August 1956, including John Coney, 5, of 2035 Kossuth Street.
Five people, including Linwood Braxton of 2000 Kossuth Street, were fined after a police dice raid on a home at 703 Kaighns Avenue.
A two-alarm fire sweeps a grain pit at Camden Grain Co. on Kossuth Street. The blaze, discovered at 4 a.m. by night watchman Caspar Krispin of 2046 Arlington Street, spreads smoke and fumes over a mile-wide area.
Marriage licenses published in the Camden Courier-Post, November 17, 1949, including Russell E. Mattson of 333 North 38th Street and Ruth M. MacDonald of 46 North 33rd Street.
The Eighth Ward Democratic Club, headed by Cleophas Hood, sponsored a chicken dinner at 1741 Kossuth Street.
Charles Di Ciano of 1909 Kossuth Street and two companions were arrested by Haddon Township police in an automobile reported stolen from Broadway.
Mrs. Nancy A. Abbott of 1741 Kossuth Street, a widow and native of Leicester, England, was among those granted citizenship by Judge Kates in Camden.
A lamp explosion in a barn behind 751 Ferry Avenue killed Michael Errieski; Patrolman Karl Quinton saved a horse and a family from the spreading fire, which gutted Mrs. Jennie Stevenson's home at 1848 Kossuth Street.
Police and detectives swept disorderly houses across South Camden in one of the largest raids of the period, led by Capt. Lewis Stehr.
Nelson Hardy was committed to the county jail in default of $2000 bail for attacking Mary Boullion of 1911 Kossuth Street.
Four men were held without bail on manslaughter charges following the death of John Mabelski after a brawl near Railroad and Ferry avenues.
Louis Gray, 17, of 1806 Kossuth Street was badly burned by blazing oil at the Armstrong Cork Works.
Mrs. Gertrude Pergerm of 1804 Kossuth Street was among Camden women victimized by a man posing as a dentist.
George H. Print, 21, of 1814 Kossuth Street, had a lacerated scalp treated at Cooper Hospital after a fight.
Funeral notice for Rebecca, wife of William H. Osler, of 1836 Kossuth Street, who died November 28, 1899.
A Christmas tree caught fire from candles in the parlor of William Greenan's home at 1731 Kossuth Street; Mrs. Greenan doused it before it spread.
Thieves pried open the door of Mrs. Rosie Hersog's home at 1814 Kossuth Street but fled when a passing child walked in.
Three frame houses near the corner of Van Hook and Kossuth streets were destroyed by fire before daybreak on December 11, 1894.
Frank Middleton, 18, of 1818 Kossuth Street died at Cooper Hospital from burns caused by the explosion of a coal oil lamp.
Dr. Harry O. Cox of Eighth and Central Avenue, a graduate of Jefferson College, died at his residence after a two-week illness.