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Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
Camden Courier-Post, August 2, 1929: five people, four of them relatives of David Baird, Jr., were hurt when Robert Brice's car overturned near Freehold; none was critically injured.
The Sodality of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, East Camden, staged a minstrel show in the parish's new school hall at 29th Street and Westfield Avenue on June 27, 1929, with music by the Black Cat Serenaders.
Two automobile accidents at the same East Camden intersection within minutes of each other injured three people, including Dr. A. Lincoln Sherk and a ten-year-old girl struck by a car driven by a resident of 347 Hillside Avenue.
Thieves looted an East Camden chain store and three North Camden residences of more than $400 in cash and jewelry worth nearly $500 during the night.
Local briefs from Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1917: Miss Eveline Pratley of 221 North 38th Street lost three fingers in a machine accident at 38th Street and Westfield Avenue. Also: a tugboat injury, a business incorporation, and a child's broken arm.
Collision Occurs as Machine Speeds to Home of Man Who Attempted Suicide Three Camden policemen were injured, one of them seriously, last night, when the First district auto ambulance was struck by a trolley car while responding to a call from 2310 Carman street , where Bodine Stratton, 39 years old, had shot himself over the heart.
Death notice for Robert L. Earnest, 50, husband of Jennie Earnest, who drowned September 7, 1915, at Lake Temagami, Canada; services were held at his home, 3010 Westfield Avenue, Camden.
Mrs. Jane H Dukes of 3803 Westfield Avenue was fatally stricken with heart disease while sitting on her porch; also a child struck by a motorcyclist, a wedding at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and the incorporation of the Sturdevant Corporation.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
Three Camden firemen of Truck Company No. 3 narrowly escaped death when a Camden and Trenton trolley car crashed into their hook and ladder at Westfield Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street after morning practice. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 1909.
The Camden Daily Courier of January 21, 1909 reports "Jersey Devil" tracks in the snow in the back yards of many East Side homes, including Police Captain William Alberts on Westfield avenue near Twenty-ninth street.
Local notes from East Camden: Nicholas Donahue elected to Board of Trade; Harry Lake ill at home; Ezra Wallace of 38th Street and Westfield Avenue confined to home with sickness; James N. Lloyd of 2831 Concord Avenue seriously ill with pneumonia.
Michael McCusker, superintendent of the Union News Company at the Federal street station, was shot in the abdomen at his home, 206 Benson street, and died at Cooper Hospital; his wife Florence McCusker was charged with his murder.
The Commissioners of Assessment adopted the Town Council recommendation that Thirtieth Street, from Westfield to Morrison Avenues, remain a sixty-foot street, a decision meeting with approval of nearby taxpayers.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, the first Catholic parish in East Camden, was founded in 1893 at 25th and Howell Street and celebrated its Golden Anniversary in 1943. A new church built in 1952 at 2907 Federal Street became St. Joseph's Pro-Cathedral.