Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1918 — FOREIGNERS BUY LOAN BONDS [ARTICLE]

FOREIGNERS BUY LOAN BONDS

Total of More Than $3,400,000 Bought by Employees of Pennsylvania Railroad Lines. . To ascertain the extent to which railroad employees of foreign birth subscribed to the first Liberty loan, a special investigation has been completed on the directly operated lines of the Pennsylvania railroad on its lines east of Pittsburgh. The result shows that out, of 160,127 employees 25,827 were foreign born. There were among all the employees, both native and foreign born, 52,782 subscriptions, totaling more than $3,400,000. Nearly one-third of all the foreign-boru emplbyees were /purchasers.