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1946 map of Camden showing the Fairview section and Alabama Road
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America Road

America Road is a street in two sections: one running from West Octagon Road east to Yorkship Square, the other running from the opposite side of Yorkship Square eastward, ending at East Octagon Road.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1964: Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office, a front-page article continued on page 39
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Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office

A Camden fire pumper from Engine 1, answering a mattress fire, collided with an automobile and crashed through the front of an insurance office at Broadway and Pine Streets, injuring firemen, a passerby and the car's occupants and leaving the building condemned.

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Camden Courier-Post clipping, January 6, 1964: Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto
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Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto

A Camden fire engine driven by Fireman Isaac Muns collided with a car at Broadway and Pine Street and plunged into an insurance office on the corner, injuring two firemen, a woman waiting for a bus, the car's two occupants and a city worker shoring up the building.

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Babies Born in April Get B. & L. Stock Shares

Kearsarge Building and Loan Association offers stock shares to parents of babies born in Camden's Fourteenth Ward in April, including Jean Marie Fanslow of 1659 Alabama Road and William Richard Hook of 1677 Alabama Road. Camden Courier-Post, June 10, 1933.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, June 6, 1915 — Cure Paralysis Victims
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Cure Paralysis Victims

Two children, Eva Sadtler and Anna M. Percival of 2013 South Tenth Street, are discharged as cured from Camden Municipal Hospital after treatment for infantile paralysis.

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