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- ↑ "Between the Acts". Willa Cather Archive. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
- ↑ "The Club Theater – Architectural Drawing". Historic Joplin. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
- ↑ The Julius Cahn-Gus Hill Theatrical Guide and Moving Picture Directory, Volume 8 (1903), p. 188
- ↑ "Four Time Mayor and Long Time Theater Manager Popular", Phil Wadhams, Lincoln State Journal, July 21, 1929, p. 12
- ↑ Republican (Blair, Nebraska), January 7, 1897