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Page 23 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for G. Vignola's Federal Cleaners & Dyers at 2800 Federal Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how Father Byrne bought the plot at Westfield Avenue and Federal Street that became St. Patrick's cemetery, and how the Saints Peter and Paul, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Sacred Heart parishes began.
The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester at 713 Broadway was destroyed by a two-alarm fire of undetermined origin following an explosion. Eight companies fought the fire for seven hours, and damage was estimated at $100,000.
Patrolman John McTaggart, 53, died in Cooper Hospital after 31 years in the Department of Public Safety, 12 as a fireman and 19 as a policeman walking the same Broadway beat from Kaighn Avenue to Line Street. He was the guest of honor at the annual St. Patrick's night party "A Nite in Ireland."
A Camden Courier-Post "Hospital Cases" column of July 31, 1941, listing emergency-room admissions to Cooper and West Jersey hospitals — among them Patricia Titus, 8, of 2005 Arlington Street.
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
A June 1939 Camden Courier-Post report on the Municipal Alcohol Beverage Control Board's ruling that even giving away liquor on Sunday breaks the law, in a hearing that reviewed several licensees including the Polish-American Citizens Club.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 26, 1938, including Marie Cahill, 5, of 2168 Berwick Street, treated for brush burns on her hand.
Two men escaped serious injury when their 10-ton truck, loaded with paper rolls, was struck by a freight train at Front and Spruce streets.
Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1938 7 Arrested in Bingo Numbers Racket; 4 Seized in Betting Place Ten men and a woman were arrested in gambling raids over the weekend by Camden city and county authorities.
Third installment of Frank Sheridan's history of Camden fire fighting: how Weccacoe Hose Company kept meeting for 14 years after the paid department took over in 1869 to pay off a $5000 steam engine debt.
Tony Scola was arrested and identified by David McMullen of 1015 North 34th Street as one of three men who robbed him of craps winnings at gunpoint. Scola was taken at Fourth and Spruce Streets by Acting Captain George Clayton and Detective Clifford Del Rossi.
Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.
Camden Courier-Post - June 23, 1933 A black leather pocketbook containing $5.50, papers and house keys, was stolen Wednesday night from the parked automobile of Violet Byers, 413 Broadway , on Park Boulevard near Kaighn Avenue .
With the death toll from the gas blast at the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. plant at Locust and Cherry streets increased to 15, families began burying their dead; Spiro Cecich, 37, of 1815 Salem Street died in Cooper Hospital.
Pair Held With Camden Boxer Admit Landisville Robbery - Fifth Man Hunted With four suspects, including Roxie Allen , Camden welterweight boxer, still held without bail, the State Police today continued their search for the fifth bandit in the $200 holdup of a Landisville poolroom Sunday afternoon.
Bartender Daniel McGettigan was fined $100 after a raid on a Spruce Street saloon ordered by public safety director Dr. David S. Rhone for violating the Sunday-closing order.
Roxie Allen, Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and Carmen Passarella of 1227 Broadway were arrested and identified by police as two of four men who held up a craps game at Landisville, where the loot was said to total between $150 and $200.
Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths were held without bail after being identified as four of the five bandits who robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom.
More than 1500 guests attended the reception at the Sons of Italy Hall after Miss Jennie Maroccia of South Third Street married Louis Cavallo of 314 Kaighn Avenue at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
The Courier-Post's "When Father Was a Boy!" feature recalls the 1907 Camden Police baseball team, photographed at Blackwood when it played the Public Service nine, and tells what became of its players.
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando took evidence from raids on 35 alleged gambling haunts to the Camden County grand jury in a drive against slot machines, while Republican leaders reportedly wanted him called off.
Camden patrolman John V. Wilkie, the "notebook cop," found a cave behind Harleigh Cemetery and arrested two men found intoxicated inside; each got 20 days in the county jail.
Trapped over a blazing butcher shop on Kaighn Avenue, a man and wife were carried down a ladder by Engine Company 9 firemen returning from one of four serious fires that called out every piece of apparatus in Camden.
Rev. L. S. Moore, new pastor of Trinity M. E. Church at Broadway and Spruce street, and Mrs. Moore were given a reception by members of the church.
Camden's new $2,000,000 marine terminal will rest on the strongest possible foundation, according to a preliminary report made today by Thomas J. Daley, city engineer, on the results of driving test piles for the project about 1,000 feet south of Clinton street.
A Camden Evening Courier report of July 27, 1925 on a spectacular fire at the Bantivoglio & Son junk warehouse at 252 Division Street, in which a collapsing brick wall buried four firemen of Engine Company No. 7, including Captain Watkin.
Three people, including two boys, were injured in separate automobile accidents in Camden, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer on November 20, 1922.
Mayor Van Hart's June 1922 proclamation for a safe and sane Fourth of July, with Camden news of the ferryboat Millville, a Masonic funeral for William P. Weiser, and a divorce advised for Mrs. Margaret Jenkins of 1418 Louis Street.
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
The Board of Recreation Commissions arranged to open the Camden playgrounds on Tuesday; the Line street ground was abandoned and its apparatus moved to the Liberty school ground at Eighth and Spruce streets, with F. A. Finkeldey as supervisor.
Ebenezer Phipps, 33, of 920 Locust Street, was arrested by Detectives Brothers and Troncone on a charge of firing three shots into Annibel Williams of 208 Spruce Street.
A pet fox terrier that refused to leave the patrol box at Broadway and Spruce streets after its owner, George "Gold Tooth" Wilson, was arrested for panhandling by Detective Brothers moved Recorder Stackhouse to discharge Wilson from custody.
Street Commissioner Sayers began work on improving nearly a score of Camden streets, starting with Spruce Street from Broadway to Sixth Street, with Trenton Avenue from Newton Avenue to Line Street to be repaved next. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 1915.
During a wind storm in Camden, Mary Dewalt was struck by a jitney at Broadway and Spruce Street and W. P. Miller was hit by an auto driven by Anthony Valentine at Broadway and Mickle Street; both chauffeurs were released after the accidents were found unavoidable.
Captain Stanley and a squad made two more raids near Third and Spruce Streets, descending on the places of Mamie Tinsey at 240 Spruce Street and Josephine Quinn at 807 Locust Street.
Carl Green, 23, of 268 Spruce Street, admitted robbing Lawrence Lamaina's place at Locust and Spruce Streets and was committed to jail by Recorder Stackhouse after his arrest by Detectives Moffett and Murry.
Joseph Evans, 14, of 225 Benson Street, and David Plummer, 12, were held by Recorder Stackhouse in September 1914 after confessing to stealing a bicycle from the home of Fireman William McCauley, 453 Liberty Street. The boys were also accused of breaking into the Asbell Brothers store at 911 Broadway.
Camden police made seven simultaneous raids in the Tenderloin district on a Sunday morning, arresting twenty-three persons accused of selling liquor without a license. The raids were directed by Police Captain Arthur Stanley.
A Camden Post-Telegram account of the April 1912 police raids on two alleged South Camden gambling houses. Eli Johnson and Daniel Bussey were discharged or fined; among those caught at 829 Locust Street was former prize fighter Walter "Kentucky Rosebud" Edgerton.
Miss Margaret M. Oberst, the pretty and talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Oberst, of 809 South Fifth street, was married yesterday morning at 11 o'clock in SS. Peter and Paul's Church, St. John and Spruce streets, to Mr. James B. West, Jr., a prominent plumber and stepson of John McGowan, of 501 Trenton avenue.
Columbus Day was observed in Camden with a parade and ball by the Italian Knights of Columbus at the First Italian Republican League, 913 South Fourth Street, and a banquet at Columbus Hall.
Police under Captain Stanley raided a surreptitiously advertised "Suey and Teddy" dance on Spruce Street; Charlotte Stewart was committed to jail as the one responsible.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of August 7, 1909: Humphrey Lynch of 410 Viola Street treated for a Fourth of July cannon-cracker wound, a drowning in Cooper Creek, a car-barn injury, and the deaths of Benjamin Derndinger and George Westcoat.
Camden police raided two alleged disorderly houses: Captain Stanley took Charles Lee's place at Third and Spruce Streets, known as "The Big Ship," while Captain Boyle raided 2 Fogarty Avenue.
Adolph Walker, 27, shot and killed his wife Anna at their home at 906 Coates Alley, then turned the revolver on himself.
Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton.
The corner-stone of the new parochial school of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church at St. John and Spruce Streets was laid before several hundred people; the societies marched to the place headed by a platoon of police under Captain Arthur Stanley.
Acting on Mayor Ellis's recent order, police under Captain Stanley raided four Camden places and seized slot machines; the proprietors were to be heard before Recorder Stackhouse.
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.
Col. George G. Felton, real estate dealer and former City Treasurer, was found dead of gas in his office in the Felton building at Second and Federal streets. The same Camden Daily Courier column reported the sudden death of Walter C. Fish, florist of Broadway and Spruce streets.