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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
13
An ordinance regulates billposting within San Antonio Texas. It requires a billposter's license costing 100 dollars annually and lays out bonds, permits, and penalties. It covers posting rules on public and private property and enforces clean sidewalks and proper consent.
City rules specify steel stringers and galvanized surface for roof and wall billboards, with structural engineer plans required. Provisions set setbacks, open clearance beneath boards, inspection duties for the Building Inspector, nuisance abatement, and fines up to 200 dollars for violators.
Special notice reports a city ordinance amending the 1914 sidewalk and curbing rules. It requires licenses and bonds from contractors and sets detailed construction standards, materials, grading, forms, and penalties for noncompliance. The act consolidates sections and applies to work within thirty days after enactment.
Special notice outlines required joint cutting depths and widths, sand filling, tamping within twenty minutes, and top surface mix of one part Portland cement to one and a half parts sand or trap rock. Expansion joints, edging tools, and curb/sidewalk separation rules are specified along with contractor duties, timelines, and City Engineer authority.
Specifications outline curb and gutter construction including steel nosings, curb radii at driveways, and grading. Concrete mix 1 part cement 2 sand 4 stone, wearing surface details, forms and templates, timber curb options, wooden posts, and licensing requirements for sidewalk work in public streets.
City requires contractors to file applications with detailed personal and financial disclosures. City Engineer approves, then Taxation Commissioner issues a yearly license upon bond of at least 2000 dollars, with conditions on supervision, liability, and safeguards, plus suspension and remedies for incomplete or defective work.
The ordinance sets enforcement for sidewalk curb work including revisions to maintenance guarantees and permit processes. It details contractor duties, City Engineer oversight, license and bond requirements, and penalties for violations, with fee schedules for permits and ground marking responsibilities.
City ordinance text amends section fifteen to resolve conflicts with state law and preserve enforceable provisions. It clarifies singular to plural, gender neutrality, and that all remedies are cumulative. Passed and approved on September 18 1916. Mayor Cipro G Brown. City Clerk Pred Fries attested.
People from Brownsville Del Rio Corpus Christi Dallas Los Angeles and New Orleans are listed as stopping at the Gunter and registered at the St. Anthony as guests or registrants. Military officers Lieut Ira A Rader and Lieut W F Perkins among the visitors. State senator Co B Hudspeth noted at the Menger.
A Philadelphia housewife long bought fish from a city market dealer. When prices rose she challenged him and he replied that fish was high because it was scarce due to many aquariums causing demand. The quip, attributed to The Youth’s Companion, frames a humorous market scene.
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