1920 United States Federal Census. US Census Bureau. 1990. "William A. Spinks" entry in Los Angeles (the only one there, and the only one in California). Retrieved August 19, 2008. Accessed through Ancestry.com database. Provides Monrovia residence, William's occupation as avocado farmer, Clara's immigration date; confirms ages, marital status, birth places, no children, parents' birth places, free-owned home, Clara's immigration year. Copy is poor; data columns verified by comparison to title=legible blank 1920 census form(51 KB)
ancestrycdn.com
1910 United States Federal Census. US Census Bureau. 1980. "William A. Spinks" entry in Los Angeles (the only there one, and the only one in California for that matter). Accessed through Ancestry.com database. Provides Duarte residence/farm, marriage year 1891–92 (off by 1 compared to multiple other sources), Clara's immigration year, William's occupation as flower farmer (employer), land owned free and clear, neighbors engaged in flower farming; confirms marital status, no children, ages, birth places, parents' birth places. Copy is poor; data columns verified by comparison to legible blank 1910 census form(37 KB)
1920 United States Federal Census. US Census Bureau. 1990. "William A. Spinks" entry in Los Angeles (the only one there, and the only one in California). Retrieved August 19, 2008. Accessed through Ancestry.com database. Provides Monrovia residence, William's occupation as avocado farmer, Clara's immigration date; confirms ages, marital status, birth places, no children, parents' birth places, free-owned home, Clara's immigration year. Copy is poor; data columns verified by comparison to title=legible blank 1920 census form(51 KB)
1930 United States Federal Census. US Census Bureau. 2000. "William A. Spinks" entry in Los Angeles (the only one there, and the only one in California). Accessed through Ancestry.com database. Provides home value of $6,000 in Monrovia, non-veteran; confirms Monrovia residence, owned home, living on farm, William's occupation as avocado "rancher" (employer, active), marriage year 1880–81, ages, marital status, birth places, no children, parents' birth places. Copy is poor; data columns verified by comparison to title=legible blank 1930 census form(70 KB)
Overholser, E. L. (1924–1925). "Cold Storage Behavior of Avocados"(PDF). California Avocado Association Annual Report. 10. San Diego, California: California Avocado Association: 32–40. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 30, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
Colby, Frank Moore (1899). "Billiards". In Peck, Harry Thurston; Engle, Edward Lathrop (eds.). The International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress in Every Department of Human Knowledge During the Year 1898. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. p. 99. Retrieved August 19, 2008.
"To Play 14-inch Balk Line". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 24, 1896. p. 10. Archived from the original on February 27, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2008. The event was originally slated to begin December 7.
"Spinks Still Ahead". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 11, 1896. p. 10. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2008. Sports column note.
"Spinks Wins the Match". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 12, 1896. p. 9. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2008. Sports column note.
chemhistory-chicago.org
"C.H.i.C. Timeline 1843–1880". A Guide to the Chemical History of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois: Chemical History in Chicago Project. Retrieved February 24, 2007. Date unspecified.
chemindustry.com
"Aloxite". ChemIndustry.com. 1999–2008. "Chemical Info" database. Archived from the original on June 25, 2007. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
Russell, Michael (December 23, 2005). "Billiards – The Transformation Years: 1845–1897". Leisure and Sport Review. Retrieved August 19, 2008. (Also appears on several other sites.) This questionable article was obviously used as the source for the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 6 episode "Time of Your Death", in which pool chalk plays a small but crucial role; the show perpetuated the "axolite" for "aloxite" error in that article, to millions of viewers. For details, see: "Transcript of 'Time of Your Death'". CBS.com. CBS Broadcasting. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2014 – via CrimeLab.nl. This is retained as a (red-flagged) source here specifically to document this fact, as the term "axolite" cannot be found anywhere else.
jimloy.com
Loy, Jim (2000). "The Chuck Nurse". Jim Loy's Billiards/Pool Page. Retrieved February 24, 2007. The Shamos source is the more authoritative one, but this site provides an animated illustration of precisely how the chuck nurse works.
nih.gov
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
"Substance Summary: Aluminum Oxide". PubChem Database. National Library of Medicine, US National Institutes of Health. 2008. "aloxite" and "corundum" search results. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
"Demarest Beats Veterans". The New York Times. January 14, 1909. p. 7. Retrieved August 18, 2008. Short sports column.
"Spinks's Billiard Challenge". The New York Times. November 5, 1894. p. 6. Retrieved February 25, 2007. A very short sports column note. NB: Though the article called the game "fourteen-inch balkline" it meant 14.2 balkline more specifically, because 14.1 was not introduced into tournaments until 1914.
"Billiard Notes". The New York Times. November 18, 1894. p. 7. Retrieved August 18, 2008. Sports column entry.
"Sutton Wins Two Balkline Games". The New York Times. January 24, 1909. p. S1 ("Sporting News" section). Retrieved August 18, 2008. Short sports page note.
"New Billiard Plan of Rating Players: Hoppe Will Lead the List—Handicaps for All of the Others[sic]". The New York Times. August 5, 1915. p. 9. Retrieved August 19, 2008. The article refers to him as "W.M. Spinks of Los Angeles", a typo for "W.A." or "Wm.", and could not plausibly refer to anyone else, as there was no other notable W. Spinks in the billiards world of the period (or since), only two amateurs, C. A. and John Spinks, meanwhile William was the only Californian among them.
"Avocados for Orient". Los Angeles Times. December 28, 1918. p. I-5. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
toaster.org
Clark, Neil M. (May 1927). "The World's Most Tragic Man Is the One Who Never Starts". The American. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2007.; republished in Hotwire: The Newsletter of the Toaster Museum Foundation, vol. 3, no. 3, online edition. The piece is largely an interview of Hoskins. (And there actually is a Toaster Museum, backed by a related foundation. They take the history of toast, and electrical heating in general, quite seriously.)
traveltotourism.com
Russell, Michael (December 23, 2005). "Billiards – The Transformation Years: 1845–1897". Leisure and Sport Review. Retrieved August 19, 2008. (Also appears on several other sites.) This questionable article was obviously used as the source for the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 6 episode "Time of Your Death", in which pool chalk plays a small but crucial role; the show perpetuated the "axolite" for "aloxite" error in that article, to millions of viewers. For details, see: "Transcript of 'Time of Your Death'". CBS.com. CBS Broadcasting. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2014 – via CrimeLab.nl. This is retained as a (red-flagged) source here specifically to document this fact, as the term "axolite" cannot be found anywhere else.
Clark, Neil M. (May 1927). "The World's Most Tragic Man Is the One Who Never Starts". The American. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2007.; republished in Hotwire: The Newsletter of the Toaster Museum Foundation, vol. 3, no. 3, online edition. The piece is largely an interview of Hoskins. (And there actually is a Toaster Museum, backed by a related foundation. They take the history of toast, and electrical heating in general, quite seriously.)
"Aloxite". ChemIndustry.com. 1999–2008. "Chemical Info" database. Archived from the original on June 25, 2007. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
Russell, Michael (December 23, 2005). "Billiards – The Transformation Years: 1845–1897". Leisure and Sport Review. Retrieved August 19, 2008. (Also appears on several other sites.) This questionable article was obviously used as the source for the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 6 episode "Time of Your Death", in which pool chalk plays a small but crucial role; the show perpetuated the "axolite" for "aloxite" error in that article, to millions of viewers. For details, see: "Transcript of 'Time of Your Death'". CBS.com. CBS Broadcasting. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2014 – via CrimeLab.nl. This is retained as a (red-flagged) source here specifically to document this fact, as the term "axolite" cannot be found anywhere else.
"To Play 14-inch Balk Line". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 24, 1896. p. 10. Archived from the original on February 27, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2008. The event was originally slated to begin December 7.
"Spinks Still Ahead". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 11, 1896. p. 10. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2008. Sports column note.
"Spinks Wins the Match". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 12, 1896. p. 9. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2008. Sports column note.
Overholser, E. L. (1924–1925). "Cold Storage Behavior of Avocados"(PDF). California Avocado Association Annual Report. 10. San Diego, California: California Avocado Association: 32–40. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 30, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
"Avocados for Orient". Los Angeles Times. December 28, 1918. p. I-5. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
