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Show Watching the President. WASHINGTON, May 4. President Wilson received a great demonstration tonight at a local theater when a four-minute four-minute speaker announced that he had bought still another bond, this time one for $500. Last Wednesday, when the president agreed to sponsor the "match-the-president" movement by buying a $50 bond on the installment plan, after previously pre-viously subscribing for nearly $20,000 it was believed he had reached his maximum maxi-mum effort. Tonight a man In the audience announced an-nounced that lie would buy a $5000 bond if ten others would subscribe for one $500 bond each. Eight persons quickly met the challenge ; then there was a pause. The president, from his box, beckoned to an usher and told him to inform in-form the sneaker that lie would take om of the bonds. The announcement started a wave of buying that extended even tc the chorus, every member of the company com-pany purchasing a bond and swelling thc night's total at the theater' to more than $100,000. |