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Royden Street
Royden Street, which was improperly spelled on the city plan, was named in honor of William Royden, who in 1681–82 became the owner of all the land between the present Cooper Street and Line Street.
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St. John Street
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Federal Cleaners & Dyers
Page 23 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for G. Vignola's Federal Cleaners & Dyers at 2800 Federal Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how Father Byrne bought the plot at Westfield Avenue and Federal Street that became St. Patrick's cemetery, and how the Saints Peter and Paul, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Sacred Heart parishes began.
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Two Landmarks on Broadway to Be Sold Tuesday
The City of Camden scheduled a public auction of two Broadway landmarks it had taken over for non-payment of taxes, the Labor Temple at Broadway and Royden Street and the Eagles Home at 413-15-17 Broadway, with minimum bids of $10,000 each. The article describes both buildings in detail.
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Holdup Victim Held in Speakeasy Raid
Jesse Seybold of 923 St. John Street, the victim of a "thrill" holdup in March 1936, was arrested as the proprietor of a speakeasy after a police raid led by Patrolman John V. Wilkie.
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Margaret Oberst Bride of Mr. West
Miss Margaret M. Oberst, the pretty and talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Oberst, of 809 South Fifth street, was married yesterday morning at 11 o'clock in SS. Peter and Paul's Church, St. John and Spruce streets, to Mr. James B. West, Jr., a prominent plumber and stepson of John McGowan, of 501 Trenton avenue.
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Catholics Lay Corner-Stone of a New Parochial School
The corner-stone of the new parochial school of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church at St. John and Spruce Streets was laid before several hundred people; the societies marched to the place headed by a platoon of police under Captain Arthur Stanley.
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Petition
Residents and property owners of Camden's Fourth and Sixth wards petition City Council for an under-drainage culvert running from the Line Street culvert at Broadway out to Sixth Street and north to Sixth and Royden. Arthur Stanley, then of 929 Newton Avenue, signed among the petitioners.