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27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
Joseph Wallace of Merchantville was sentenced to four months in the county jail after pleading guilty to engaging in a lottery, having been arrested by county detectives at Thirty-fourth and Federal streets with numbers slips in his pockets. Judge Clifford A. Baldwin disputed defense attorney Carl Kisselman's claim that Wallace had been in the numbers business only two weeks.
Front-page Camden Courier-Post account of the June 1, 1938 drowning of 18-year-old Pasquale Barbalace of 1551 Norris Street in the Delaware River near Petty's Island, while three companions — among them Joseph Piotrowski of 1167 Chase Street — tried in vain to save him.
Chigger Pup Tent No. 7, the Camden branch of the Military Order of the Cootie, prepared to initiate a class of 18 V.F.W. candidates in January 1938; Howard Bean served as an officer of the branch.
Less than 24 hours after the Camden Board of Education had warned school officials of Pennsauken township and Woodlynne borough that 164 pupils from those towns faced dismissal from Camden Senior High School, officials of both communities last night promised that money owed the local board would be transmitted today.
Theodore Jakucki, 14, of 1207 Whitman Avenue, was killed in Pennsauken Township when Meyer Albert, 16, of 1186 Kaighn Avenue, fired a shotgun at a rising quail during a hunting trip the boys took instead of going to school; Leon Grenkwicz, 15, was with them.
Real estate transfers in Camden County towns, including 1339 Princess Avenue, William S. Eastlack to Florence Podmore, $3000. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1914.