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- Entered from advertisements and articles in the New York Times, New-York Tribune. New York Evening World. and New York Sun.
According to the Times article, the event "sold Liberty bonds to the amount of $26,000,000 in pledges and $5,000,000 in cash."
The article also notes: "A tattered American flag, the first one to fly over German soil, carried by the plane of Captain Fred Libbey, of the American air force in France, who has to his credit twenty-two German planes brought down, was sold to the National Bank of Commerce for $3,250,000."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 17 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="external" href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-10-17/ed-1/seq-8/" target="_blank">Link to advertisement</a>
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 17 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="external" href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-10-17/ed-1/seq-6/" target="_blank">Link to article</a>
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.), 17 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="external" href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1918-10-17/ed-1/seq-6/" target="_blank">Link to article</a>
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 18 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="external" href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-10-18/ed-1/seq-5/" target="_blank">Link to article</a>
"$31,000,000 IN BONDS PAID FOR WAR RELICS." New York Times (1857-1922): 15. Oct 18 1918. ProQuest. Web. 26 June 2014.
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