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A Camden Courier-Post display advertisement of May 19, 1964 for Clan Mfg. Co., Inc., 310 Market Street, Camden: sanitary maintenance supplies and Super Suction wet-and-dry pick-up vacuum machines, "We Supply Everything But the Janitor."
Four Camden firemen were injured when their engine collided with a tractor-trailer at 2nd and Market streets while answering a false alarm; the truck driver was charged with failure to yield to a fire apparatus.
William J. Porter, 26, and Howard James, 25, linked by Camden police with 10 burglaries in six weeks, were held in $25,000 bail each by Municipal Judge Marino. Among the jobs James admitted was a break-in at a grocery at 635 Carman Street.
Burglars took $30 to $40 in cash and 200 three-cent stamps after ransacking office and warehouse space of five firms in a building at 10th and Market Streets, entering by a ladder at the rear of 1011 Market Street.
Camden fire alarms logged from midnight Wednesday to midnight Thursday, September 1957, including a fire at 35 Leonard Avenue and one at 215-21 Kaighn Avenue.
Six Camden properties on Newton Avenue, Segal Street, Carpenter Street, 250 Burns Street, and Kaighn Avenue were ordered demolished as unfit for habitation and fire hazards.
A March 1954 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for Rosedale Homes, twin brick houses at 413 38th Street in East Camden, offered at $10,250 through realtor Philip B. Tannenbaum.
A holdup man took $85.55 from the K Liquor Store at 321 Market Street, and the same night burglars failed to open a safe at the Cooperson auto body repair shop at 38 North 4th Street.
By Ronald G. Van Tine Restrictions on nightlong parking on principal streets in the business district will be tried out early next year as a major step in a campaign to make Camden a cleaner city in which to live and work.
Kaighn School Razed; Blazes Set in Church, Unoccupied House Police today are investigating the possibility that three fires Wednesday within a quarter-mile area inside of three hours and 46 minutes were the work of a firebug.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of May 14, 1952 for the new Dudley Park Homes on Dudley Street, north of Federal, offered at a full price of $4990 or $37.78 per month through Philip Zinman & Co. and R. H. Rosenfeld.
Municipal Judge Benjamin Dzick continued until Jan. 19 the hearing of Jess Garwood, a National Plumbing & Heating Co. foreman arrested by Camden fire marshal inspector Walter Fredericks for installing an oil burner without a permit at the new Dow Chemical Co. building at 4th and Market streets.
Haddon Heights builder Charles R. Lamoreaux and his wife, Ada T., were indicted by the Camden county grand jury for obtaining money under false pretenses; in another indictment, Lawrence Bleichner of 416 Market Street was charged with passing a worthless check.
A Bellmawr motorist pleaded not guilty to death by auto in the death of Miss Katharine O'Neill, 71, of 510 Penn street, and was held for grand jury action.
Elmer Parker, proprietor of a luncheonette and cigar store at 18 Market Street, was fined $100 by Municipal Court Judge Dzick on gambling charges after detectives broke up a dice game in the rear of the store.
Mayor Brunner called a July 1950 conference to coordinate city departments in clearing high grass and weeds from Camden — a campaign during which crews uncovered and destroyed more than 200 wild marijuana plants on a city lot at Chelton Avenue and Arlington Street.
1950 Courier-Post profile of Camden realtor Ellis Goodman, who had been in business for 24 years at the same location, 515 Market Street.
Services for Miss Anna M. Johntra, 90, of 732 Market Street, who taught in Camden public schools nearly 40 years and was principal of the Linden School from 1905 to 1916.
William L. Adams Sr., 61, of 553 North 28th Street, died at home. Born in South Camden, he was a longtime East Camden resident, former Standard Oil employee, and Holy Name Society member. Survived by widow Mary C., two sons, five daughters.
Charley Humes's "Life Hereabouts" column of May 14, 1949, recalling the Broadway Cycle-Union basketball team that won the South Jersey semi-pro championship on April 11, 1924, and announcing the first reunion of its players, later the First Ward Club, that night at Kenney's Restaurant, with Ott Laxton among those named.
Page 21 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Neil Deighan's at Airport Circle and N. Clements auto parts on Howell Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how the Church of the Immaculate Conception was built at Broadway and Market Streets in 1864.
Page 73 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Kernan's at Second and Market Sts., Billie's millinery at 453 Kaighn Avenue, barber Sam Bosco at 1444 Haddon Avenue, Hempel's Meat Market at 2606 Federal Street, Melvin and Sam, the Gold Seal Food Market at 2513 Federal St., Jean's at 1105 Broadway, Mary Naden's Naden Store on Kaighn Ave., Massi's Shoe Repairing at 2716 Federal Street, and Harry Chu.
Page 76 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for T. L. Bear, jeweler, at 204 Market St., M. J. Jubanyik, Inc. at 6th and Penn Sts., John W. Kile's Walt Whitman Flower Shop at 625 Cooper Street, Siris Abbatoirs at Broadway and Jackson St., roofer Max Reihmann, Jr., Y&B roofing and siding, Louis E. Schimpf, florist C. Jackel and the Belfi Insurance Agency, with the compliments of Chief of Police George W. Frost.
Page 67 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: compliments of Seltnab, with advertisements for Ed Flanagan's Mobilgas station at 46th St. and Westfield Ave., the Camden Bowling Center at 805 Federal Street, the Black Cat Diner at State and Federal Streets, the Camden Millwork Co. at 327-31 Pine Street, the Camden Recreation Center at 2200 Federal St., Cooper Hosiery Stores at 2635½ Westfield Ave., the Kay-Mel Shop, Mac's Cafe at Market and Ninth Streets, and the Rosedale Dept. Store at 3406 Federal Street.
Page 75 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the United States Pipe Organ Co. at 121-125 N. 18th St., Philadelphia, Rosen Bros. furriers at 1030 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John DelDuke, Wells Drug Stores, Inc. at 25th and Federal Streets and 27th St. and Westfield Ave., the East End Junk Co. at 2105 Federal Street, Leo's Mfg. Co. at 1113 S. Third Street, Katharine Byrne, Spuhler's Grille at 2312 Federal St., and Lynch's dry cleaning at 523 Market St. and 2640 Federal St.
Page 13 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for U. S. Tire Service at 920 Market Street and Murphy Auto Body Works at Twenty-Seventh St. and Sherman Ave., around an installment of the parish history telling of the West Jersey missions of the Reverend Theodore Schneider and "Father Farmer."
Page 17 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for funeral director and embalmer Paul R. Rilatt at 521 State Street and Kenney's Cafe at 531-33 Market Street.
Page 18 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for Poor Little Homo's, West Jersey Cafe, at Third and Market Streets, "where good friends meet."
Page 19 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for Edward J. Borden, real estate, insurance and mortgages, at 702 Market Street, a continued installment of "The Origin of St. Joseph's Parish," and an advertisement for Frank Quinn & Co., religious articles and church goods.
Camden Courier-Post - July 1, 1941 Senate Finally Approves Choice Announced by Edison 2 Months Ago Trenton, June 30.
Camden Chief of Police Arthur Colsey, a 27-year veteran of the department, died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home at 2937 Stevens Street. The Courier-Post traced his career from merchant at Ninth and Market streets and Second Ward councilman to patrolman in 1912 and permanent chief in 1934.
A June 1939 Camden Courier-Post report on the Municipal Alcohol Beverage Control Board's ruling that even giving away liquor on Sunday breaks the law, in a hearing that reviewed several licensees including the Polish-American Citizens Club.
Camden Courier-Post columnist Dan McConnell recalls the old Court House, the lunch wagon on the triangle at Federal, Arch and Hudson streets, Camden's first traffic cops, and other memories of old Camden.
Jiminy's "Checked and Double-Checked" column in the Camden Courier-Post of February 4, 1939: Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann's uncertain place in the coming city commission campaign and his budget clash with Mayor George Brunner, followed by personal notes, including Dr. Richard Cranmer of 3416 Federal Street arranging a Cranmer School reunion.
R. M. Hollingshead Jr. was fined $15 for driving 75 miles per hour on the Burlington Pike. Gordon Snyder, 23, of 709 North 28th Street, was fined $5 for having no driver's license.
A 1938 "Making the Rounds" item announcing that Tom Mayers and Herb Marker are back at the Hi Hatters Club, 224 Market Street, with a new band, and that the club has entered the S. J. Golden Dart League.
A 1938 "Making the Rounds" item announcing that Tom Mayers is bringing Madame Violet back to the Hi Hatters Club, 224 Market Street, for private readings on Monday evening, and that Tom wants dart players for Joe Gallagher's Golden Dart Tournament.
Police of four states hunted a known suspect in the holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street in which Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1110 Langham Avenue was seriously wounded; the card players were held as material witnesses.
On November 19, 1936, Congressman Chas. A. Wolverton certified that Nathan Rosengarten of 1135 Langham Avenue, Camden, could take the preliminary competitive examination for appointment to the U.S. Military Academy on December 12, 1936.
Marriage license notices published October 28, 1936, including Albert Schilder of 938 North Second Street, Camden, and Margaret C. Kesley of 35 Cornell Avenue.
Camden police Chief Arthur Colsey's "Secret Six" squad raided a cigar store at 217 Market Street, arresting Oscar Bendler of 310 Erie Street on gambling charges and seizing horse racing sheets and $114.
Anthony Carrozza, a 20-year-old RCA Manufacturing Company employe, admitted faking a kidnaping and robbery story after cashing 12 fellow workers' pay checks at the West Jersey Trust Company, Third and Market streets; Detectives Thomas Murphy and August Fortune recovered the money in Philadelphia.
Mayor Frederick von Nieda denied approving the Camden Housing Advisory Committee's recommendation to raze 20 blocks of houses for public parking in North and South Camden, and opposed razing the two veterans' homes at Broadway and Benson street.
The Camden Housing Advisory Committee recommended that the city clear 20 blocks of sub-standard properties, 895 dwellings in two areas, to save on municipal service costs; Mayor Frederick von Nieda favored eliminating the areas but opposed spending city money without assurance of a return.
A 1936 "Making the Rounds" item in which Herb Marker and Tom Mayer, joint owners of the Hi Hatters Club at 224 Market Street, thank their friends for their patronage and point to Pearl and Peggy, the band, and bartender Jack Miko.
A 1936 "Making the Rounds" item praises the Hi Hatter's Club at 224 Market Street, Herb Marker and Tom Mayer's place, for its band, its music every night, and bartender Jack Miko.
Seven men were arrested last night when police raided a private home after receiving a “tip” that a card game was in progress.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Camden Lodge of Elks tonight will shatter all initiation records of recent years. In addition to 50 new members to be received 80 former members are to be reinstated.
A man who allegedly aimed a blow at Sgt. Ray Smith, ex-heavyweight champion of the A.E.F. Tuesday night received a 30-day suspended sentence in police court yesterday.
Stanley Powell, 28, of 1256 Whitman Avenue, was jailed without bail in connection with the $10,380.50 robbery of Mrs. Mary Shane on Broadway near Kaighn Avenue, while police questioned Frank Gromacki, 28, of 412 Broadway, in the same case.