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Locust Street ran south from Beckett Street to Mechanic Street between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets in Camden; its 700 block was known as Oak Street until about 1883 and its 600 block as John Street in the 1870s. Homes and businesses disappeared block by block after World War II, and the last structure, at 1128 Locust, was razed after a fire in 2010.
A 60-year-old South Camden woman, Mrs. Lillian Heard, suffered a broken left arm battling two youths who stole her purse on Broadway near Liberty street while she was on her way to church.
A victory parade after a bitter Eighth Ward Republican primary set off a street riot at Sixth and Viola Streets in front of William Tansky Jr.'s saloon; a boy was hit by a ricocheting bullet and detectives questioned the rival faction leaders.
Miss Elizabeth McCreight, 65, a North Camden music teacher, was found dead by gas in her home at 321 State Street; funeral services were set for the Holl Funeral Home, 1401 Princess Avenue. Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933.
A bench warrant was issued for Herman Max Schwartz of 214 Byron Street after police seized a 50-gallon still at his home.
Police raiders found a 25-gallon still, three gallons of moonshine and a set of coils at the home of Stanley Saposki, 1066 Thurman Street, and arrested Frank Beuclawski of Mount Ephraim Avenue on a liquor charge.
Leon Branch, 24, of 816 Locust Street, was slashed in a row with a woman at Third and Cherry Streets and treated at Cooper Hospital, but refused to press a charge against his assailant, Lulu Parks.