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A service flag honoring 1,150 St. Joseph's Parish men and women in the armed forces was unfurled at Tenth and Mechanic Streets, where Mayor Brunner pinned gold stars on the mothers and a brother of parishioners killed or missing in World War II. Courier-Post, August 31, 1943.
Courier-Post photographs of Camden's first volunteer firemen receiving diplomas: a man descending a building on a rope, two men in asbestos suits, and a fireman in a helmet and gas mask.
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.
Judge Gene R. Mariano sent Joseph Dadich of 1438 Louis Street to jail for 60 days in February 1938 after a suicide attempt, at his wife's request for a "cure," and suspended sentence for Joseph Grochowski of Mechanic Street.
A February 1936 Camden Courier-Post notice of the marriage of Dorothy Harczynska and John Walker, solemnized at St. Joseph's R.C. Church in Camden with Monsignor Strenski officiating.
At the second trial of Fred and Joseph Klosterman on 12 lottery counts, five witnesses testified they had worked for the brothers' numbers bank, while five convicted numbers writers, among them Walter Hart of 1245 Thurman Street, were returned from state prison to testify.
Chez La Joy advertisement in the Camden Courier-Post, May 1934, announcing a new all-star floor show of all-colored entertainers at Mt. Ephraim and Mechanic Street.
Camden Courier-Post, July 11, 1933: the Kaighn's Point fire destroyed or damaged the C. B. Coles and Sons lumber yard and seven houses on Knight and South Front streets, leaving 23 people homeless.
Police Judge Then Holds Two Camden Suspects Without Bail Cash Not Recovered After refusing defense counsel's request that the city police bare their evidence, Police Judge Pancoast yesterday held two suspects without bail in the recent $11,790 Radio Condenser Company holdup and two other youths as material witnesses.
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."
After a gang shooting at Ninth and Chestnut streets nearly struck an 8-year-old girl, Mayor Roy R. Stewart ordered police to stop and question suspicious characters and drive gangsters from Camden.
Rollie Waterhouse, Joseph McKenna and Ralph Endt, on trial for the November 21 Hotel Camden holdup, testified they were gambling in Gloucester; the state called three taxi fares, among them Joseph Dent of 318 Taylor Avenue.
John Doris, brother of the electrocuted Frank Doris, was arrested after Joseph Connors of Gloucester was shot in front of the American Restaurant, 506 Kaighn avenue, near Broadway; a police roundup netted 10 men held as material witnesses.
Three 18-year-old youths were arrested in April 1928 on their third attempt at 3 a.m. to break into a house at 1541 Louis Street after a girl living there broke an engagement; Police Judge Bertman released them when they promised to pay for the door.
Eight Camden boys, including Edward and Jess Luczkiewicz of 1051 Louis Street, were committed to the detention home in February 1928 for stealing copper wire and battery plates; police sought the junk dealer said to have bought the goods.
Camden Courier-Post, February 18, 1928: Genevieve Chudzinski of 1247 Atlantic Avenue was mock-kidnaped on the eve of her wedding and given a surprise shower at City Hall by city assessor's office staff.
Camden Courier-Post - January 18, 1928 A meeting which was described today as "a gathering in honor of David S. Rhone , director of public safety," was held last night at the Thirteenth Ward Republican Club , Haddon Avenue and Mechanic Street .
Five candidates passed the Camden Park guard civil service test; Charles D. Phillips of 121 North Twenty-third Street finished first with a score of 77.13.
Jockey Louis Asseline, jailed by Recorder Stackhouse after shooting himself, tried to choke himself in his cell; he said he was despondent because his wife, at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Barry at Locust and Mechanic Streets, refused to return home.
A fight between rival gangs at Louis and Sycamore streets in August 1913 drew about fifty participants; several men were held in bail or jailed for disorderly conduct, and Policeman Cornog lost his badge in the melee.
Camden marriage licenses, including Frank E. Connelly, 24, of 1248 Locust Street, and Jennie Wilhelm, 19, of 265 Mechanic Street.
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1910: Lorigan & Hurley took out a permit for a row of nine houses at 319 to 335 North Eighth Street.
Real estate transfers in Camden County, including Nos. 327 and 329 Liberty Street, William B. Stephens to Ephraim B. Fisher, $2000, and G. Hugo Ernst to Edward Geschke at Mechanic and Norris streets. Philadelphia Inquirer, February 22, 1908.
Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden items from March 1, 1906: a railroad power house going up at Seventh and Vanhook streets, bids for a lift bridge over Cooper Creek, and six-year-old Emma Jones of 1066 Louis Street badly burned in a bonfire.
A Philadelphia Inquirer "Camden News Notes" column of September 2, 1904, reporting the deaths of Annie Smith of 308 Mechanic Street and Daniel Bromley of 1500 South Tenth Street, and the injury of 12-year-old Benjamin Eppinger of 1159 Federal Street, jolted from a brewery wagon at Twelfth and Federal Streets.
Camden's Fourth of July in 1904 passed without serious accidents; eight people were admitted to Cooper Hospital, and flag raising and Pyne Point Park exercises were held.
George Willingmire terrorised South Camden with a shotgun and a bull terrier, wounding four people before plunging into the Eighth Street swamp. Captain Stanley pursued him to within twenty feet before Willingmire loaded his gun and threatened to fire.
Mary McDonald of Ferry Avenue and Mechanic Street fell from the step at 712 Woodland Avenue while returning a call, fractured her right ankle and was admitted to Cooper Hospital.
Camden saloon keepers charged with Sunday liquor selling, among them James Croker of Fourth and Jasper streets and John Murschell of Broadway and Jefferson street, pleaded not guilty before Mayor Westcott; Chief of Police Dodd was the complainant in all the cases.
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 1890: Camden briefs, including a robbery at installment man Llewellen B. Jackson's place at 94 Federal Street, a coal-unloading accident that injured George Burton, and Minnie Aaron jailed by Mayor Pratt on a theft charge.
James Cox has begun six two-story brick houses on Cox Street, below Second, as part of a broader construction boom across Camden. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1888.