  Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy line shapes measured for
quasi-one-dimensional Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$ samples grown by a temperature
gradient flux technique are found to show Luttinger liquid behavior, consistent
with all previous data by us and other workers obtained from samples grown by
the electrolyte reduction technique. This result eliminates the sample growth
method as a possible origin of considerable differences in photoemission data
reported in previous studies of Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$.
