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Edwin Stanley Wirtz (1914–1975), son of Camden policeman Stanley R. Wirtz and grandson of Camden fireman James McDade, was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in October 1943 and served 22 years, retiring in October 1965 as an inspector in the Fire Marshal's office.
Pershing Street runs north to south just west of Norris Street, split by the PATCO tracks. It was originally German Street until the name changed during World War I.
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.
Two people were killed in a fire at 1040 Thurman Street in Camden; Chief Scott Thomson said police were investigating the fire as an arson.
Death notice for Helen Jaroszewski of 1266 Thurman Street, wife of the late Stanley Sr. and mother of Joseph and Stanley, who died April 30, 1967; funeral from the Ciechanowski Funeral Home with a Requiem high Mass at St. Joseph's Church.
Camden Courier-Post - December 30, 1955 Thirteen new firemen were sworn in today by Safety Director E. George Aaron in ceremonies at City Hall .
A 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages listing under Garbage Removal Service for Frank Lokaj of 1088 Thurman Street, Camden.
A 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages advertisement for United Roofing & Siding Co., T. F. Madden, 1178 Thurman Street, Camden, offering all types of roofing, siding, gutters and repairs.
Thirty-seven candidates passed the Civil Service test for Camden firefighter in December 1949 — among them brothers Santo and John DiMaggio of 319 Beckett Street.
Home on furlough at his parents' house at 1012 Thurman Street, Lt. Lucien L. Marcel, a bombardier with 33 air missions over Europe, said news of strikes, the black market and the coddling of German prisoners was demoralizing to the men at the front.
A July 1941 Courier-Post advertisement for Stegmaier's beer, ale, porter and stock lager, distributed by the Thurman Bottling Co. at 1176-1186 Thurman Street, Camden.
Local Board No. 11 ordered seven men to report for Army induction on July 30, 1941, including John E. Wiley of 1061 Diamond Street and Leonard Auslander of Magnolia Avenue.
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 three-alarm fire swept the wholesale store of the Antrim Hardware Company at 1514 and 1516 Federal Street, damaging $100,000 in stock, injuring several firemen and menacing nearby homes and the Standard Oil plant across the street.
Divorce was recommended for Allen Stokes, whose wife left him for Philadelphia, while decision was reserved in the suit of Mrs. Martha Scully of 1089 Thurman Street against her husband, Henry, of Carpenter Street.
At the second trial of Fred and Joseph Klosterman on 12 lottery counts, five witnesses testified they had worked for the brothers' numbers bank, while five convicted numbers writers, among them Walter Hart of 1245 Thurman Street, were returned from state prison to testify.
Walter Hart, 25, of 1245 Thurman Street was held in $5,000 bail on a charge of operating a numbers lottery on a complaint signed by City Detective George Zeitz.
Four youths, among them Nicholas Boganik of 1305 Thurman Street, were held for the grand jury by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast on a charge of stealing an automobile after Motorcycle Policeman Gus Fortune caught them following a chase.
Raymond Hozalski, 8, of Jackson Street was injured when struck by the car of Dr. Benjamin Wroblewski of 1166 Thurman Street at Tenth and Thurman Streets; the doctor took the boy to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
Police raided an alleged speakeasy at 1067 Thurman Street and seized four women, five men and 500 bottles of homebrew, according to the Camden Courier-Post of June 18, 1932.
Police raided an alleged speakeasy at 1108 Thurman Street, arresting three men and confiscating a small wash-boiler still and a can of wine; Tony Salousky was held in $500 bail as proprietor.
Two youths found in a stupor from drinking liquor, George Burrell of 1208 Thurman Street and Dominick Ravieri of 325 Division Street, were held in $500 bail each while Judge Garfield Pancoast ordered police to find the speakeasy that sold it.
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.
Eight Camden boys, including Edward and Jess Luczkiewicz of 1051 Louis Street, were committed to the detention home in February 1928 for stealing copper wire and battery plates; police sought the junk dealer said to have bought the goods.
Police raiders found a 25-gallon still, three gallons of moonshine and a set of coils at the home of Stanley Saposki, 1066 Thurman Street, and arrested Frank Beuclawski of Mount Ephraim Avenue on a liquor charge.
John Trail, 35, of 1160 Thurman Street was taken to Cooper Hospital with head wounds after he told police he was struck with a club and robbed of $1.70 on Kaighn Avenue near Eighth Street.
John Schulke of 1212 Thurman Street and Charles Mufler of 1103 Haddon Avenue were injured about the head and hands when a heavy plank fell from a crane at the Dialogue ship yards; both were taken to Cooper Hospital.