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Sergeant John Joseph Clynes Jr. (1894–1919) of 60 North 32nd Street in East Camden was a Victor Talking Machine Company pressman drafted in 1918 and assigned to the 153rd Depot Brigade at Camp Dix. He contracted tuberculosis in service and died at Base Hospital No. 8 in Otisville, New York on June 24, 1919, aged 25.
Joseph Anthony Hooven Jr. (1915–1996) was a Camden police detective who graduated Camden Catholic High School in 1933 with a Villanova scholarship, joined the Camden Police Department in 1940, and rose to Detective Sergeant by December 1957.
Charles Behrend of Camden, NJ served as a Private First Class in Company C, 309th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. He was killed in action on September 25, 1918 during the Battle of St. Mihiel and is buried at St. Mihiel American Cemetery in Thiaucourt, France.
John H. Carroll (1861–1932) operated Carroll's Hotel and saloon at South 3rd and Cherry streets in Camden, ran a horse-and-wagon stable and an excavating business that graded Yorkship Village, and was a longtime Fifth Ward Republican committeeman.
Obituary of Walter Connell, 87, retired Victor Talking Machine Co. employee who died at his son's home at 49 North Twenty-second Street; funeral at Davies Funeral Home, burial at Bethel Memorial Park.
Speakeasy patrons, proprietors and 13 youthful craps players paid $1020 in fines and forfeitures after weekend police raids across Camden, including cigar stores at 2318 and 2314 Federal Street and Joseph Dugan's oyster saloon at 2222 Federal Street.
Clifford Grundy, 23, of 61 Penn street, lost a finger in a machine at the Victor Talking Machine Company plant and was treated at Cooper Hospital.
Two Camden firemen, James McDade and William Simpson, were overcome by smoke at a $4000 fire at the West Jersey Carriage Works, 15 to 21 Market Street, in April 1913.