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Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.
Death notice for James E. Murphy, 88, of 3010 Fenwick Road, Fairview, who died January 2, 1955; funeral from the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway, Camden. Camden Courier-Post, January 4, 1955.
Samuel Napierkowski, 60, of 1257 Morton Street was fatally stricken on his job in the power house of the New York Shipyard and pronounced dead at West Jersey Hospital.
In a letter to the Mail Bag, Bertha M. Pestridge of 2734 Tyler Avenue answered a writer signing as “Two Strikes,” standing by John Green and her sweetheart, both of whom had come through two strikes.
Theodore Hyk, Charles Di Ciano of 1909 Kossuth Street and John Gaisor of 1047 Louis Street were held for the grand jury in June 1932 after a Haddon Township police sergeant stopped the stolen car they were riding in on Crescent Boulevard.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of March 23, 1918: shipyard worker William Briederback of 434 Viola Street burned about the eyes, William Rovner of 1117 Broadway overcome by gasoline fumes, and a man held on a lead-pipe theft charge.
John Kennedy, 16, of 1117 Locust Street, suffered severe scalp lacerations and probable fractures of both knees in a fall at the New York Shipyard and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Detective Brothers exonerated Undertaker Gordon C. Lindes, whose ambulance ran down James Moreland as he was crossing Broadway; Moreland, in the Homeopathic Hospital with a fractured skull and lacerations, was much better.
Peter Bolione, 36, of 915 Jefferson Street, suffered a compound arm fracture when a pneumatic drill kicked at the New York Shipbuilding plant.
Arnold Pascoe, 22, of 434 Viola Street fell thirty feet from a battleship at the New York Shipbuilding plant and was treated at Cooper Hospital for a fractured skull, a compound fracture of an arm and internal injuries.