Article May 4, 1899 Issue

Miscellany

The following is an extract from an ordinance recently published in the Galveston Daily News, which had been introduced at a meeting of the city council of Galveston, Texas. May it not justly be considered as one of "the signs of the times"?

It shall not be lawful for any person, firm, or corporation to exhibit or distribute or to have posted or pasted up on any of the bill-boards, fences, sidewalks, curbstones, posts, or awnings in the city of Galveston, or display in any window or show case any picture, print, lithograph, or advertisement representing a human figure in a lewd, improper, or indecent manner, or representing such human figure as suffering from or being afflicted with disease of any kind whatsoever, nor shall it be lawful in any of the methods aforesaid, to exhibit advertisements of any medicine or remedy purporting to cure such disease or ailment, where such advertisement is accompanied by pictures or representations of persons represented to be suffering from such disease, and all such pictures or representations so exhibited are declared to be nuisances in any of the streets, alleys, or sidewalks of the city of Galveston, and when posted or pasted up may be removed by the chief of police, or other officers of the city.

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