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Corporal Isadore "Israel" Goldstein (1914–1945) of 2578 Baird Boulevard, Camden, served with Company D, 759th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army. He was killed in action on April 5, 1945 at Nassau, Germany while saving 21 other soldiers, and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Henry Evans Zook was born on March 29, 1888, in Evesham Township, New Jersey, to John Trimble Zook Sr. and Mary B. Evans.
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Bradley Avenue runs east from 1400 Haddon Avenue to Euclid Avenue in the Parkside section of Camden.
Cramer Street runs east through the Cramer Hill and East Camden neighborhoods of Camden, NJ. Named for real estate developer Alfred Cramer, who sold more than 5,000 building lots in the area by 1897, it stretches from the 2600 to 3400 blocks.
Front Street runs north and south through Camden, west of Second Street and parallel to the Delaware River, from Erie Street in North Camden as far south as Atlantic Avenue. Known historically as North Front Street and South Front Street, it was home to saloons, livery stables, churches, and waterfront industry before early-1970s redevelopment broke its once-continuous run.
Operated by David B. Berschler, this business served Camden's Jewish community.
Obituary for Mrs. Molly Zeitz, of 1476 Bradley Avenue, Camden; services at a funeral home at 1401 Princess Avenue, burial in Crescent Burial Park.
Temporary Laborers Dismissed, While Men Ousted by Hartmann Are Reinstated Three dismissals, three promotions and four reinstatements and two new hirings were announced yesterday by City Commissioner Henry Magin , director of public works.
Obituary for Carlind E. Myers, 53, machinist, of 1409 Bradley Avenue; funeral at Holl Funeral Home, burial in Harleigh Cemetery.
Seven people were injured when a car carrying a Camden Minor Baseball League team was dragged by a shifting train engine; Albert Blair, 17, of 1144 North 24th Street suffered a fractured skull.
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
A weekend crime sweep in Camden: two alleged Philadelphia gangsters were trapped in Harleigh Cemetery by Patrolman Howard Bean and others, while a South Camden grocer routed two holdup men — four suspects held for the Grand Jury.
Local briefs from Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1917: Miss Eveline Pratley of 221 North 38th Street lost three fingers in a machine accident at 38th Street and Westfield Avenue. Also: a tugboat injury, a business incorporation, and a child's broken arm.