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- ↑ Scontras, Charles (September 7, 2015). "Maine Voices: Early 20th-century Maine workers would have understood Bernie Sanders". Portland Press Herald . Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ↑ Frost Lord, Alice (January 20, 1961). "Charles Fox, Artist". Lewiston Evening Journal. p. 2. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ↑ Frost Lord, Alice (January 21, 1961). "Charles Fox, Outstanding Maine Artist, Man of Many Interests". Lewiston Evening Journal. pp. A–7. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ↑ "SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA (1897-1946) officials" . Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ↑ Maine Register State Year-Book and Legislative Manual. Portland, ME: Tower Publishing Company. 1980. p. 82.
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