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Robert L. Lucas
Robert Lee "Bob" Lucas was the son of Alice and Leon "Donkey" Lucas. His father achieved recognition as a boxer in the 1928 Olympics, competing in the light-heavyweight division.
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Leon Lucas
Leon Lucas (1901–1971), Camden boxer who reached the 1928 U.S. Olympic team as a light heavyweight and later founded the famed Donkey's Place tavern.
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Donkey's Place
Donkey's Place, the Camden tavern at 1223 Haddon Avenue opened by boxer Leon Lucas in 1943, famous for its steak sandwiches on a poppy seed roll.
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VFW Post Auxiliary Stages Party for 16th Anniversary
Parents of Three World War Heroes Honored by Women of Mathews-Purnell Unit Mrs. Kobus Lauds Civic Work of Organization Sixteen years ago the Ladies Auxiliary of the Mathews-Purnell Post , Veterans of Foreign Wars, was instituted.
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Auxiliary of V.F.W. Schedules Banquet
Matthews-Purnell Post Group to Observe 16th Anniversary Tonight The Ladies Auxiliary of the Corporal Mathews-Purnell Post No. 518, Veterans of Foreign Wars , will observe its sixteenth anniversary tonight at 8.30 o'clock with a banquet in O'Donnell's Restaurant and Cafe , Thirty-ninth and Federal Streets .