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- ↑ "Very Peculiar Will: It provokes a Contest Among Negroes For a Saloon," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 18, 1893, pg 5.
- ↑ Taylor, Quintard (1994). The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District, from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-295-97345-6.
- ↑ "Secret Halls and Rooms: Arrangement of an Opium Smoking Join Exposed," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 18, 1894, pg 8.
