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- ↑ "What's That Referee up to? (October 3, 1954)".
- ↑ "De Palma Again Shatters Los Angeles Track Mark (March 21, 1920)".
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- ↑ Seton, Ernest Thompson; Scott, Hugh Lenox; Powers, Lillian Delger (1918). Sign Talk: A Universal Signal Code, Without Apparatus, for Use in the Army, the Navy, Camping, Hunting, and Daily Life. Doubleday, Page & Company. p. 233 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "The Michigan Alumnus". UM Libraries. 21 June 2017 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Frank Birch, Grid Official, Marries Minnesota Girl". Chicago Tribune. July 3, 1918.
- ↑ http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sterling.html
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