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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1918
Page
6
Between sundown Monday and dawn Tuesday police vice squad detained twenty five people, including ten young men, during raids on an east side pool hall and other city locales. Officers Weakley and Carver led the operation with vagrancy charges filed against several women and fines of ten dollars imposed on each of the pool hall detainees.
Fines ranging from 350 to 100 were laid in the Corporation Court over several weeks, with multiple men and women fined 10 to 14 for violating anti-vice regulations. Three white men were arrested Monday night on Calvert Street for gaged gaming in a hcardrome and fined 15 each.
Local draft boards announce limited August supply with remaining Class 1 men deferred for farming duties. August calls schedule three men from boards 2 and 9 and two from board 5 to Prairie View Normal, with August 15 calls to Camp Mabry and August 29 calls from each board. No general service calls yet.
American and British air officers train in coordinated bombing in England. Low flying aircraft are equipped with bombs and practiced to deliver them accurately. American fliers praised yet viewed as a bit keen while learning teamwork and discipline amid engaged campaigns.
A San Antonio Home Folks column volunteers to connect soldiers stationed there with classmates, former neighbors, and residents from their home towns. Messages show interest in meeting people from Texas, New York, California, and beyond, with several requests for college and city connections and a note that the service is free to soldiers in local camps.
A long string of misread city and state names including Newburgh Beacon N Y1 Pallanshee Brooke Enunty West Virginia Stoubenvitly Ohio Berkeley Cass Brooklyn Long Island South Bend Bikharthid Lopeka Wan Buffalo Cedar Palla Ames Portsmouth Lowell Sioux City Port hope Oregon Westfield Nebo Binnish Wingston Omaha Beloit Bridgewater Mace Logansport Lancaster Fennimoreotosi Livingston Bloomington Crawford Sedro Woolley Washington Cleveland Detroit Michigan New York 68th and Broadway etc.
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