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- ↑ Up-to-date Candy Teacher Archived 2014-04-08 at the Wayback Machine Page 65 Charles Apell 1921
- ↑ Rigby's Reliable Candy Teacher: With Complete and Modern Soda, Ice Cream and Sherbet Sections, Will O. Rigby, Fred Rigby, Rigby Publishing Company, 1920
- ↑ The Philadelphia story about lemon sticks May 3, 2012 The Baltimore Sun
- 1 2 Gorelick, Richard (May 3, 2013). "Consider the lemon stick: The FlowerMart treat has become a Baltimore treasure". The Baltimore Sun . Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
- ↑ Gorelick, Richard (May 3, 2013). "Consider the lemon stick: The FlowerMart treat has become a Baltimore treasure". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
- ↑ "Blast from the Past, Lemon Peppermint Stick". Jillian's Kitchen. May 6, 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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