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Father Joseph Turner, C.SS.R., a pioneer of the Laymen's Retreat movement, was the principal speaker at the Camden Knights of Columbus Retreat Club's "East-Side night" at 603 Penn Street in February 1938.
County Physician David S. Rhone ordered an autopsy and a coroner's inquest into the death of Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot during the January 11 holdup of a Penn street card game. Luigi Tortu, one of three people arrested for questioning, was released.
Luigi Tortu, 21, of 426 Line Street, and two girls, Pearl Wills of Delair and Evelyn Buffa of 810 Florence Street, were held by Camden city and county police after Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot in the January 11, 1938 holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street, died in Cooper Hospital 13 days later.
Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1112 Langham Avenue, a chef and father of 13 who was shot when two bandits held up a card game at 725 Penn Street on January 11, 1938, died in Cooper Hospital, and a murder warrant was issued for his assailant.
Police of four states hunted a known suspect in the holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street in which Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1110 Langham Avenue was seriously wounded; the card players were held as material witnesses.
Two men were shot, one seriously, when two masked, armed bandits robbed a card game at 725 Penn Street, escaping with more than $600. Camden Courier-Post, January 11, 1938.
Junior Fire Captain Eli Hunt of Engine Company No. 3, 1813 Broadway, retired March 1 for disability, took formal leave of his comrades as Battalion Chief Charles Erickson and Commissioner Mary W. Kobus praised his service since 1918.
Police Judge Lewis Liberman held Earl Bundy without bail after detectives testified he was making bathtub gin in his home at 824 Sycamore Street. The court also dismissed charges against two youths accused of coat theft, and fined Francis Murtagh of 117 North 34th Street for reckless driving.
Mayor Frederick von Nieda denied approving the Camden Housing Advisory Committee's recommendation to raze 20 blocks of houses for public parking in North and South Camden, and opposed razing the two veterans' homes at Broadway and Benson street.
The Camden Housing Advisory Committee recommended that the city clear 20 blocks of sub-standard properties, 895 dwellings in two areas, to save on municipal service costs; Mayor Frederick von Nieda favored eliminating the areas but opposed spending city money without assurance of a return.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Camden Lodge of Elks tonight will shatter all initiation records of recent years. In addition to 50 new members to be received 80 former members are to be reinstated.
Two young women were ordered to leave Camden by Police Judge Lewis Liberman yesterday when they were charged with disorderly conduct on a complaint made by Acting Detective John V. Wilkie.
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1933 Retired Builder Dies at Penn Street Home; Resident Here for 50 Years The funeral of William C. Aitken , 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street , will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1933 The funeral of William C. Aitken , 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street , will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Mr. Aitken was one of the best known builders of his day.
Camden Courier-Post - August 11, 1933 William B. Nece, 50, of 30 Strawbridge avenue, Westmont, was found dead last night at the wheel of his automobile, parked near Fourth and Penn Streets .
Camden Courier-Post - June 9, 1933 While scores of young lovers "watched the planes come in" at Lewis B. Simon's "petters paradise" in Delaware Township without molestation from police last night, it was a different story in Pennsauken Township.
Furnished-room classified advertisements (classification 117) from the Camden Courier-Post, June 7, 1933, including a listing for 572 Benson Street.
Charges Husband Trapped on Pretense of Returning Child Accused by his wife of binding her to a chair and threatening her life with a knife and with gas, Charles Flippen, 26, of 609 Grant Street , was held without bail for the grand jury by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast yesterday.
Funeral notice for Mrs. Annie Gross, 73, wife of Charles Gross of Friends avenue and Penn street, with services at the Schroeder chapel and burial in New Camden Cemetery.
George Cassidy of 216 Sycamore Street was cut about the head, lip and wrist in a collision at Second and Penn streets. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton arrested the driver, Marshall Reinheimer, for failing to show a registration card.
Camden Courier-Post - June 11, 1932 Offer of $5,300,000 for Catholic Church Property Disclosed in Court.
Store manager John Cullen was shot and near death after the second holdup of his American Store on Lansdowne Avenue in a week. Mounted Policeman Earl Wright arrested an armed suspect hours later at Third and Penn Streets.
Death notice of Mrs. Susan Pratt Stiles, 70, a Camden resident of 41 years who died at her home, 421 Penn street.
A night attendant at Herman Z. Cutler's garage at Fifth and Arch streets saw a man carrying a box up an alley and called police, frustrating a second attempt within ten days by thieves to steal whisky from George Beringer's drug store at Fifth and Federal streets.
Thomas Atkins of Oaklyn, driver of the automobile that struck and killed Mrs. Emma Scholl, 67, of 694 Tulip Street at Ninth Street and Morgan Boulevard, was held for the grand jury on a technical charge of manslaughter by Judge Bertman in traffic court.
Hoseman Roscoe Tribbett of Engine Company No. 1, Fourth and Pine streets, was suspended on a charge of being drunk and disorderly on duty, preferred by Captain W. Scott Franklin.
Three people, including two boys, were injured in separate automobile accidents in Camden, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer on November 20, 1922.
Death notice for Mary C. R. Hutchison, aged 21, of 101 Penn Street, Camden, who died April 20, 1919; interment private at Evergreen Cemetery.
Clifford Grundy, 23, of 61 Penn street, lost a finger in a machine at the Victor Talking Machine Company plant and was treated at Cooper Hospital.
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 16, 1917: Mrs. Josephine White, wife of George Gerry White and a Camden resident of over fifty years, died at her home at 325 Penn Street.
Camden Post-Telegram, May 21, 1917: two men who rented a room at an apartment house at 218 Penn Street were caught wearing a boarder's stolen suits by Motorcycle Policemen Kay and Laib.
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.
John Topkins, alias Price, brought from Pittsburgh on requisition, pleaded guilty in Camden county court to aiding John Miller in burglarizing homes on Linden and Penn streets.
Real estate transfers in Camden County towns, including 1339 Princess Avenue, William S. Eastlack to Florence Podmore, $3000. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1914.
Camden Post-Telegram, January 2, 1914: James White of 330 Penn Street returns from visiting his parents in Virginia; Alonzo Wood of 614 State Street returns from New York City; Mr. and Mrs. Davis of 713 North Seventh Street entertain guests on New Year's Day.
The Beethoven Club's weekly meeting was held at the home of Miss Helen Chew, 519 Penn Street, with vocal and piano duets and a violin solo.
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1912: Alfred Cramer, real estate developer of Cramer Hill, dies at his home at 433 Penn Street, and William K. Hurff of the Security Trust Company dies in Pasadena, California.
Death notice for Alfred Cramer, husband of Priscilla, aged 68, who died December 15, 1912; funeral services were held at his residence at 433 Penn Street, Camden, with private interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
Henry Clay Watts, president of the International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company, died at his residence, 415 Penn street, after a short illness.
William S. Townsend of 322 Penn Street, Camden, State Inspector of Food and Drugs, married Miss Nettie Harlan Marshall at Blackwood on December 25, 1902.
A slot gas meter nearly cost Mrs. Kate Brice of 50 Penn Street her life in November 1902, when gas poured into her bedroom through an open valve. Dr. Wills revived her after an hour's work.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of November 17, 1899: the police superintendent's move to 640 Berkley Street, commissions for Sheriff Sell and the coroners, a liquor-law fine, a trolley accident, and two boys held on a stable break-in charge.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on December 28, 1897 that Mrs. William Most, of 518 Penn street, stricken with apoplexy on Christmas while descending the stairs at her home, had died.
Extra driver George Wade of Camden's Engine Company No. 2 had his left leg broken when thrown from the engine while responding to an alarm in 1897; the fire was at the Temple College Academy, 534 Penn Street.
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23, 1896: burglars in Camden rob houses in broad daylight, including attempts at 217 Penn Street and 551 York Street.
Philadelphia Inquirer death notice for Miss Louisa Greaves, who died May 20, 1895, with funeral services at the Camden residence of her niece, Mrs. A. Parker, 411 Penn Street.
Philadelphia Inquirer death notice, May 23, 1895: William A. Millar, aged 68, died on the 20th; funeral services at his late residence, 427 Penn Street, Camden.
Miss Goldy gave a progressive euchre party at her home, 309 Penn Street, on Monday evening, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer of January 6, 1895.
Camden Post, June 3, 1891: the trial of Joseph Logue of 129 Birch Street for assault and battery on Sarah Louwin ended in a not guilty verdict after the jury was out ten minutes.
Camden Post, December 3, 1890: Harriet Smith is tried as a common scold and nuisance; the jury returns a verdict of not guilty.