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High Street runs east from East State Street through Cramer Hill to the Pennsauken border at North 42nd Street, with a dogleg at North 26th Street. Home to the Thomas H. Dudley and Henry H. Davis schools, and notorious since 1985 as a drug corner at North 25th Street.
John Anthony Smith worked part-time at Mister Meat, a butcher shop at Federal Street and Route 130 , for many years. Known locally as a kind man with a serious drinking problem, he had no permanent address.
Thirty-Ninth Street runs south from Jersey Avenue to Camden Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street. City directory and newspaper records document occupants of the 200, 300 and 400 blocks from 1924 to 1947.
Hoddell Garage was an auto garage at 323 Main Street in Camden, NJ, owned by William Frank Hoddell in the early 1920s.
Entertainment and nightlife advertisements from the Camden Courier-Post of November 25, 1955: Camden and South Jersey bars, nightclubs, restaurants and movie theatres, with notes on the performers.
Obituary of George B. Johnson, 80, who retired as a patrolman in the Camden Police Department in 1920 after 21 years of service. Funeral services were to be held Wednesday at the home of his daughter on North Thirty-ninth Street, with burial at Harleigh Cemetery.
Funeral services for John Kaelin, who died Saturday, will be held at 2 o'clock on Tuesday at the home of his son, John Joseph Kaelin, 321 North Thirty-ninth Street, Camden. He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Kaelin. Burial in New Camden Cemetery.