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Alfred L. Sayers

Newly built brick rowhouses at 935 to 943 Morton Street, Camden, under construction around 1928
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Morton Street

Morton Street runs from South Ninth Street east to Haddon Avenue, two blocks south of Everett Street, in South Camden.

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To Improve Sewerage Disposal, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 1, 1915
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To Improve Sewerage Disposal

Work began on a sewerage disposal plant between Camden and Woodlynne to handle the Haddon Avenue trunk sewer, under Street Commissioner Sayers.

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Newspaper clipping headlined Street Improvements Started, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 1915
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Street Improvements Started

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.

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Hot Time in the Flats, Camden Daily Telegram clipping, December 20, 1897
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Hot Time in the Flats

Police raided a house at 624 Kaighn Avenue, one of the "New York Flats," and arrested proprietress Rosie Woolford and four others; arraigned before the Mayor, she pleaded not guilty and her bail was fixed at $800.

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Clipping headlined "The Mayor's Appointments," Camden Daily Telegram, April 14, 1894, on school and police appointments.
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The Mayor's Appointments

The Camden Daily Telegram's account of Mayor Westcott's appointments of Commissioners of Public Instruction and members of the police force, including Edward Hyde of the Seventh Ward, followed by a column of political notes.

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