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Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
29th Street extends from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, running from River Road to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
Division Street runs across South Camden. In 1997, a portion of the street was renamed Ramona Gonzalez Street to honor a community leader; the remainder continues to be known as Division Street.
Abraham J. Stow joined the Camden Fire Department on April 8, 1876, replacing John Fallan as an extra man in Engine Company 2 .
Hospital cases treated at West Jersey and Cooper hospitals on February 15, 1938, including residents of 757 and 507 Division Street.
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
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.
A collision on the Camden and Atlantic Road at Pike's Peak between a Sunday-school excursion train of the Second Presbyterian Church of Camden and the Atlantic City accommodation train killed seven men and a 10-year-old boy, Willie Caskey, and injured many others, among them Cora May Lippincott of 804 Broadway.