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Four men and a woman arrested in a fight at Tenth and Market streets received suspended sentences on disorderly conduct charges from Judge Garfield Pancoast in Camden police court in August 1933.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of June 19, 1933 for the Smith-Austermuhl Co., N.W. corner of Market and Fifth Streets, urging that every major employee be bonded: "Better to have Insurance and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Camden Courier-Post - February 6, 1933 The Owl's Studio tonight will present Willard Rodman and his Hotel Hildebrecht orchestra, one of the best known "syncopation manufacturers" in the East.
Three panhandlers were sentenced to six months each in jail by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast after Patrolman Earl Wright testified they had been panhandling at Second and Market Streets.
Sergeant Thomas J. Murphy and switchboard operator Joseph "Si" Pedigree of 49 South Twenty-seventh Street were among 13 Camden policemen and firemen retiring on pension before the first of 1933, and Mayor Roy R. Stewart said none of the vacancies would be filled. Camden Courier-Post, October 8, 1932.
County Republican leaders were to be guests of the Young Republicans of Camden County at a July 14, 1932 dinner at the Lotus Restaurant, 517 Market Street, celebrating completion of the Young Republicans' membership drive; plans were made at Republican Headquarters, Broadway and Stevens Street.
Two horses pulling the Camden Catholic High School float bolted during the 1932 Flag Day school children's parade, plunging into spectators at Broadway and Federal street and injuring two women and a boy. More than 6000 school children marched before an estimated 75,000 persons.
A Philadelphia motorist who forced off-duty Policeman Earl Wright's car onto the sidewalk and punched him was chased to the bridge and arrested on reckless driving and assault charges.
Camden Courier-Post - June 11, 1932 Offer of $5,300,000 for Catholic Church Property Disclosed in Court.
Ben Courter's June 3, 1932 Camden Courier-Post obituary of Robert "Bob" Turner, 58, proprietor of the Federal Street oyster restaurant his father Fred Turner started in 1886, who helped get Camden's Moose lodge under way.
Death notice for Frances Marie Kusch, 40, wife of August Kusch, who died May 30, 1932; services at the funeral home of Benj. R. Denny on Market Street.
Thomas Fleeyne of 515 Taylor Avenue was jailed for 50 days in default of a $50 fine after police raided his home; two men were fined as inmates and John Kershaw forfeited bail.
Demanding a fair election and protection to Democratic voters, A. Harry Moore was greeted here last night by the largest crowd to gather at a Democratic meeting in Camden's recent history.
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
Reino A. Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden Street, and Henry N. Mallet, 21, of 119 North Ninth Street, were found guilty of holding up two bus drivers by a jury of eleven, after juror Charles B. Kay was excused saying he had been beaten and "put on the spot."
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of October 16, 1931 for the Smith-Austermuhl Co., insurance, real estate, mortgages and investments at Fifth and Market Streets, promising prompt adjustment of fire insurance claims day or night: "It is better to have insurance and not need it than need it and not have it."
The American Jewish Yearbook, 1931–1932, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, lists 40 Camden annual members with their addresses, including Lewis Liberman, 307 Market Street.
Sixty-four people charged under the national prohibition act pleaded not guilty before U. S. District Judge John Boyd Avis in Camden, among them Horace L. Brewer of 3080 Federal Street and Lillian S. Turner of 1108 Federal Street; bench warrants were issued for 10 others who failed to appear.
The contract to clear ten buildings, including the old Temple building, from the site of Camden's new $1,100,000 postoffice and Federal building at the northeast corner of Fourth and Market streets went to Fidelity Builders, Inc., of Philadelphia, lowest of 13 bidders at $2583.
A January 1930 Camden Courier-Post advertisement: the all-metal Allsteel furniture in Camden's new City Hall and Courthouse Annex, made by the General Fireproofing Company of Youngstown, Ohio, was sold by Bleakly Bros., exclusive agents at 525-527 Market Street.
Dr. Silas H. Quint, a retired Camden physician noted in local Democratic circles, died at his home at 726 North Fourth Street after an illness.
Joseph Tisso [sic], 22, of 214 Benson Street, was arrested at Second and Market streets on a charge of stripping plumbing fixtures and lead pipe from a vacant house at Third and Mickle streets; Captain of Detectives John Golden said he had confessed.
The Carl Kisselman dinner committee was to meet at the offices of Albert S. Woodruff, 328 Market Street, to complete plans for a testimonial banquet honoring the newly appointed second assistant city solicitor. The dinner was set for Hotel Walt Whitman on April 24, with former Senator Woodruff as toastmaster and Lewis Liberman as committee chairman.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post news photograph of a coupe driven by Stephen Jaross of 934 Thirty-third Street after it collided with a Camden-Gibbsboro bus at Third and Market Streets; Jaross was severely injured and ten bus passengers were thrown from their seats.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post report that ten passengers in a Camden-Gibbsboro bus were thrown from their seats and coupe driver Stephen Jaross was severely injured in a collision at Third and Market Streets; bus driver Harry Holloway was released on his own recognizance.
Barber Paul W. Draper reported that a missile pierced the front window of his shop at 210 Market Street, leaving a pencil-point hole but no bullet. Philadelphia police had arrested an 18-year-old youth they thought might be the "phantom sniper."
Stanley Company of America theater advertisements from the Camden Courier-Post of January 24, 1928, for the Stanley at Broadway and Market, the Towers at Broadway and Pine, and the Grand at Broadway and Mickle.
Three Camden men paid for their New Year's celebrating in 1928: one jailed for beating his wife, one fined after motorcycle officer George Frost arrested him outside the Stanley Theatre at Broadway and Market streets, and one jailed for tipping over chairs and tables in a restaurant.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Boyer were given a reception in honor of their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home, 708 Market Street, attended by more than one hundred and fifty persons.
Surviving members of Company G, Twelfth Regiment — Arthur C. Stanley among them — served as pall-bearers at the Camden funeral of Dr. Henry F. Chew, the regiment's Civil War lieutenant colonel.
Philadelphia Inquirer briefs from December 16, 1917: officers elected by the Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association and the Associated Charities, and five-year-old Theodore Sipe of 405 Market Street in Cooper Hospital after possibly swallowing a marble.
Phillipo Del Guerra of 124 Market Street found his missing 17-year-old daughter Margaret with Lino Bataloni of 613 North Front Street at Ardmore; both were arrested.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of recorded real estate transfers for November 1914, including the sale of 845-847 and 849 South Third Street — the Travis Building — by G. Frank Travis to Joseph Palese for $13,000.
Frank Ahern, 22, of 416 Arch Street, drowned in the Delaware off Thirty-third Street, Camden, when he reached for an oar while in a rowboat; his companions were unable to save him.
Two Camden firemen, James McDade and William Simpson, were overcome by smoke at a $4000 fire at the West Jersey Carriage Works, 15 to 21 Market Street, in April 1913.
Camden Masons signed a contract with George Bachman to build their new Masonic Home on Fourth Street below Market, a building expected to cost about $100,000 and be finished by October.
William C. Drew, handcuffed to County Detective John Cherry, bolted for the door of a crowded Market street trolley car in Camden after his capture at Twenty-third and Federal streets; the car was stopped while the detective subdued him and took him to the county jail.
Boilermaker Crawford Smith had Policeman Ulie Andrews lock up a drunken namesake, Andy Smith, who put a brick through a front window of his home at 729 Carman Street; Recorder Stackhouse sentenced him to two months at the paper picking plant, and James Davis and James Carter got a month each. Camden Post-Telegram, November 30, 1910.
W. Harry Smith, then with George W. Fry's buffet at 29 North Third Street, was congratulated by his friends on his birthday anniversary, the Camden Daily Courier reported in September 1910.
A fire destroyed the garage of J. G. Reeves on North Seventh Street just above Market, wrecking the automobiles of twenty-three Camden business and professional men and badly damaging the adjoining Evangelical Lutheran Church; an explosion hurled firemen Peter Carter, John Lennox and John Lutz across the street.
City on Saint Valentine's Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning "Slow Town" Across the River Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.
John Humes, a driver for J. R. Carson, a grocer of Third and Birch streets, was thrown beneath his wagon and had his shoulder broken in a runaway that aroused Camden's business section.
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 13, 1906 ** The flag poles on all the fire houses need painting. ** City Hall . Cooper. Pyne Point and Forest Kill parks were thronged yesterday. ** Open-air services were held by several of the churches yesterday.
A full day's Camden news for July 27, 1906, including Police Captain Stanley's capture of George Willingmire, wanted for a stabbing at Ninth and Chestnut Streets, after a desperate struggle on the way to jail.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news for January 17, 1906, including the burial of former Mayor J. Leighton Westcott from his home at 221 North Third Street, and a girl's hand crushed in factory machinery at Ninth and Market Streets.
Camden briefs for December 2, 1903: local Hebrews seek contributions for a synagogue, the death of Charles Thompson at 328 Market Street, and Calvary Presbyterian Church's meeting to choose a successor to Rev. Arthur W. Spooner.
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.
Camden Letter Carrier's Machine Ran Away and Its Occupants Were Cut and Bruised Harry Reir, a well known Camden letter carrier, with his wife, a small son and a sister, was thrown from an automobile at Delaware avenue and Market street , Camden, last night and all were more or less cut and bruised.
Col. George G. Felton, real estate dealer and former City Treasurer, was found dead of gas in his office in the Felton building at Second and Federal streets. The same Camden Daily Courier column reported the sudden death of Walter C. Fish, florist of Broadway and Spruce streets.
Camden householders and businessmen complained of poor gas and electric service at high prices, and of the Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company's pole-raising. Philip Burch drove off a pole gang with hot and cold water, and property owners prepared to demand revocation of the company's franchise before City Council.