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River Avenue, more popularly known as River Road, runs north from Federal Street to the Camden city limits and became a Camden thoroughfare in 1899, when the town of Stockton was united with the city. It is the main artery of Cramer Hill and the location of many stores and small businesses.
Baird Boulevard (originally Baird Avenue) runs diagonally through the Parkside and East Camden neighborhoods, named for Camden businessman and U.S. Senator David Baird Sr. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Boulevard, and terminates at the intersection of Federal Street and 27th Street in East Camden.
Joseph A. Varbalow, born in Russia on January 15, 1896, alongside his twin sister Anna, emigrated to America with his family in either 1897 or 1898, initially settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mayor Brunner cut a ribbon to open the remodeled Midway Theatre at Broadway and Carman Street as Camden's newest first-run movie house, with the first showing of "The Wild Blue Yonder." The Midway is operated by Samuel and Joseph Varbalow's Savar Theatre Corp.
Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, was to speak at a mass meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman celebrating the fund's 35th anniversary, preceded by a dinner given by members of Camden's Jewish community.
Meyer L. Sakin was to be installed president for 1928 of Camden Lodge, No. 915, Independent Order B'nai B'rith, at a meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman on January 8, 1928.