Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1917 — $3,000,000,000 Mark Has Been Safely Passed. [ARTICLE]

$3,000,000,000 Mark Has Been Safely Passed.

A torrent of Liberty day subscriptions has swept the Liberty Loan nearer its goal by hundreds of millions of dollars. How far toward the huge total had been carried by the banner day’s activities, it was not known Wednesday night. Indications, based on meager and scattering returns, were that it had reached ’or passed the three million minimum, but still lacked approximately s2 r 000,009,000 of the maximum hoped for.