The following are articles out of the 1918 Hamilton Grit. The United States was involved in World War I, so many of the following articles are related to World War I.
“The mayors of all cities have been requested to have an ordinance passed prohibiting vagrancy and idleness, requiring all able men between 18 and 60 to register who are not regularly employed at some productive, necessary labor, to the end that they might be employed, if not here, then elsewhere where the need is urgent, the harvest fields for instance. Are there any such in Hamilton? Some say there are several.