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- ↑ Chaplin, George (1998). Presstime in Paradise: The Life and Times of The Honolulu Advertiser, 1856-1995. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 116. ISBN 9780824820329. OCLC 806315274.
- ↑ "Ralph O. Yardley, Artist and Cartoonist of National Note, Returns to Stockton to Join Record Staff. Comes Back to City of Birth to Help Build Bigger Stockton". Stockton Daily Evening Record. January 7, 1922. p. 1. Retrieved December 22, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
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