https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071134/1918-07-30/ed-1/seq-1/

War labor rules are eliminating hoboes from the rails across the southwest. The munition factory strikes in Birmingham, England has ended. Twenty bandits were killed by US Marines during a revolt in the Dominican republic.

Source: "'Work or Fight' Order is Eliminating the Hobo," The Corpus Christi Caller, Corpus Christi, Texas, July 30, 1918. Page 1, Column 5.