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 What a $50 Liberty Bond Will Buy

���Steel helmets can be supplied to one division for $84,000. Helmets of the type pictured here will save the American troops from death or wounds. The rifle recalls the words of General Percin of France, who said, basing his statement on the cost of the war to his country up to January 31, 1917, that it cost $32,000 to kill a man

��To equip three brigades with the kind of shoes worn by this defender of the nation means an outlay of $285,600. The cost of each pair is $5.10 and it takes nine pairs a year per American soldier abroad, allowing for consumption and proper reserve supplies. So less than a $50 Lib- erty bond will keep a man shod for twelve months

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