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- ↑ Amusements, Washington Post , December 18, 1883, p. 2.
- ↑ The Opening of the Amusement Hall, Waukesha Freeman, May 28, 1885, pg. 4.
- 1 2 Catherine Goodwin Dead, Evening Times (Washington, DC), November 16, 1895.
- ↑ Those Who Amuse Us, Fort Wayne Gazette, Sunday, February 25, 1883, p. 2.
- ↑ "Marjorie Bonner's Death," New York Sun, November 16, 1895, p. 1.