Peoria City Code, 1884.
Minors, drinking & pool halls -
It shall not be lawful for any person having a license from said city to keep a billiard-table or tables, to suffer or permit any minor under the age of eighteen years to play at billiards at or upon any such table, nor to frequent, ramain at or be harbored in or about any billiard-table or room.
That any person who may obtain a license from said city to sell any of said liquors [...] shall not be permitted to keep his or her house, shop, or place for the sale of said liquors open and accessible from eleven o’clock P.M. on each and every Saturday until four o’clock A.M. on each and every next succeeding Monday.
Nor shall it be lawful [...] to sell or give away any of said liquors to any minor without the written consent of his or her parent or guardian.
Morality -
It shall not be lawful for any person or persons in said city to sell or give away any of said liquors to any person who is drunk or intoxicated, or who is an habitual drunkard.
It shall be unlawful for any person in said city on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, to engage in the amusements or exercises of dancing, fiddling, singing songs, jumping, drilling, skating, running foot-races, running horses, playing at ball, ten-pins, billiards, cards, marbles or other games, wrestling, boxing, pitching quoits, fishing, hunting, or any amusements or exercises of the like nature.
Building codes clarified -
That it shall not be lawful for any person in said city to erect, build or place any wooden building or buildings upon any part or parts of blocks numbered one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three, except lot ten in said block twenty-three, twenty-six, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five and thirty-six, in the original town of Peoria, and blocks numbered thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, fourty-three, fifty, fifty-one and fifty-two, in Bigelow and Underhill’s addition to Peoria, and blocks numbered thirty-nine, forty and forty-three in Ballance’s addition to Peoria, and block number forty-two in Monson and Sanford’s addition to Peoria.
Tough love and how words have changed over time -
It shall not be lawful for any owner of a bitch to permit or suffer her to run or go at large while she is in heat, within the limits of said city, whether she have the collar and muzzle on her or not; and every such bitch so found running at large is hereby deemed and declared a nuisance [...] and said bitch shall be slain and buried, or otherwise disposed of, as herein required.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:28 am
I don’t care what they say… nobody is going to stop me from pitching quoits.
March 12th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Good think that last one wasn’t still on the books, a current Councilwoman might have at least been charged with a misdemeanor for running around at large nuisancing frat boys.