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- 1 2 Paas, John R. (2014). America Sings of War:American Sheet Music from World War I. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG. p. 15.
- ↑ Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music. Jefferson: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. pp. 244–245.
- 1 2 "Common Welfare". The Survey. 33 (8): 186–187. November 21, 1914. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ↑ Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year 1914: Report of the Secretary of the Navy. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. 1915. p. 46. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
- ↑ Klekowski, Edward J.; Klekowski, Libby (2014). Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918: Accounts of the War from Journalists, Tourists, Troops and Medical Staff. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. pp. 143–44.
