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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Punk of New York, announced that a large bank has subscribed 5,000,000 towanl the Liberty Loan, but declined to state the name of the institution, saying that he hoped his own bank "would do better." Establishment of a number of branch Federal Reserve Banks throughout the country is contemplated by the Federal Reserve Board upon the passage of amendments to the reserve act, now pending before Congress. The British hospital ship Dover Castle, the British armed merchant cruiser Hilary aud a British destroyer have been sunk, the first two by submarines and the destroyer by collision. Investigation at Denver revealed 100 carloads of eggs, said to contain 14,400,000 eggs, in storage, with three storage plants not yet investigated.
