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Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was one of two streets that carried that name. Shown on a 1914 map running east from Master Street to Newton Creek, south of Olive Street, it has no listed addresses in the 1924 Directory and does not appear on the 1946 map.
The Highland Park Rescue Squad saved four Camden boys from Newton Creek at Gloucester City after their cut-loose rowboat drifted; two, including Larry Ludwick of 692 Woodland Avenue, were stuck waist deep in mud.
Contractors tearing up Broadway near the Newton Creek to lay underground conduits for the Bell Telephone Company were called off after Street Commissioner Mohrman objected that City Council had not yet approved the burying of the wires.
Two boatmen found the body of John Pugh, 65, missing from 439 Viola Street, in Newton Creek with a paving block tied to his neck; his son-in-law Benjamin E. Mellor identified him and the coroner issued a certificate of suicide.