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the proprietor $11.50,” the article reported. “It was the (saloon’s) ... share of the machine receipts.” Just days earlier, law enforcement officials had declared war on nickel slot machines spreading across the city. The casual collection stop witnessed by the county detective only served to fuel county District Attorney George W. Maxey’s resolve rid the region of the one-armed bandits once and for all. An estimate placed about 500 machines operating in the city in 1918, and about 2,000 in the county. The average machine netted $40 to $50 a day,
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