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- ↑ "The Woman's Tribune ([Beatrice, Neb.]) 1883-1909 [Microfilm Reel]". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- ↑ Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel (2006). "Cultural Critique and Consciousness Raising: Clara Bewick Colby's Woman's Tribune and Late-Nineteenth-Century Radical Feminism". In James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (ed.). Women in Print. The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 27–63. ISBN 9780299217846.
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