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- ↑ "Newspapers on Microfilm: Kanawha County". West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
- ↑ "The West Virginia Weekly (Charleston, W. Va.) 1933-1935". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
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