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Boys playing with matches behind the Market House on Federal Street started the biggest fire in Camden's history on May 13, 1900, destroying nearly half a hundred buildings along Federal Street and Taylor Avenue before four Philadelphia engine companies helped master it.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden personal notes, including Florence Ivins of 648 Locust Street celebrating her fifteenth birthday and a farewell reception for Rev. Joseph Garrison of Asbury M. E. Church.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of December 22, 1898: an incorporation, a missing boy, a burglary, a man charged with stealing overcoats and captured at the Federal Street Ferry, and city officials and policemen down with the grip.
The Camden Daily Telegram's account of the Police Committee's hearings on charges against city policemen, at which Dr. “Mark Hanna” Davis was noted as absent from the Reformers' deliberations.
Harry J. Schaefer, a 22-year-old silk spinner, was shocked to death by a broken live wire on Tenth street above Market in Camden while spectators were afraid to free him.
Michael McCusker, superintendent of the Union News Company at the Federal street station, was shot in the abdomen at his home, 206 Benson street, and died at Cooper Hospital; his wife Florence McCusker was charged with his murder.
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.
An 1897 Camden Post-Telegram report of the malt-drink licenses granted and refused by the Court of Common Pleas, including Henry Garren at 27 South 4th Street.
The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles the Camden Y. M. C. A. in 1896: its history since organizing at a house at Front and Cooper streets, its new gymnasium and swimming pool at Broadway and Federal streets, physical instructor A. G. Villee's methods, and the association's officers.
The Camden City Excise Board resolved to revoke all licenses left unpaid on Monday, granted retail and wholesale licenses, reconsidered and granted the applications of John Ross and Herman Meier of 825 Market Street, and transferred William Brown's license at 400 Jasper Street to James P. Croker.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 26, 1892: Samuel B. F. Alcott held under bail on his wife's complaint that he removed shells from their child's grave, former comedian James Cullen before Justice Paul, and hotelkeeper Charles Ricker of Tenth and Federal streets recovering $170 his bartender had taken.
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 - July 28, 1887 Resignation of a Pastor, Meeting of a Council Committee and Other Items. Rev. E. V. Glover, for many years pastor of the Alloways Baptist Church, has resigned.
A fire that started in a stable behind the West Jersey Hotel on George Street, below Front, spread to the Taylor Bros. warehouse, causing $22,300 in losses; three firemen were injured when the walls were pulled down on Chief Carter's order.
An 1880 character sketch of Josiah Matlack, newly appointed Chief of Police of Camden, tracing his early life, a carpentry accident, his produce-commission business, and his service on the Board of Education and City Council.
An October 26, 1880 Philadelphia Inquirer obituary: Charles S. Humphreys, Esq., of Third street below Market, Camden, a portrait painter noted for painting horses in motion, died at Long Branch after a short illness. He had lived in Camden about forty years.
Camden Courier-Post - September 27th, 1879 Tape Worm Removed Alive, Head and All with two doses of Mrs. Dr. Fearn's Herb Medicine.
The Camden City Medical Society was organized June 2, 1853.
The drug store at Fifth and Federal Streets , which was still in existence in 1928, was opened by Dr. T.G. Rowand in 1851. This store was owned successively by A.P. Brown and Dr. George M. Beringer .
The West Jersey Hotel at Delaware Avenue and Market Street was built by the West Jersey Ferry Company in 1849. The name was changed to new Camden Hotel in 1909.
City Council authorized the construction of a market house on Market Street at the intersection of Third Street on March 13, 1837. This market house containing 8 stalls was erected at a cost of $250, and was ready for use December 28, 1837.
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.