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- ↑ Irwin, Lew (2013). Deadly times : the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's forgotten decade of terror. Guilford, Connecticut. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7627-9524-6. OCLC 843886736.
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