Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — An Odd Ordinance. [ARTICLE]

An Odd Ordinance.

Councilman Towle, of Oakland, Cal., recently Introduced and engineered to second reading an ordinance compelling all bathers within the city limits of that town to tie up their heads in a sack while bathing. The ordinance provides that all bathers must wear “a shirt or jersey covering the entire upper part of the body except the arms. The ordinance passed to the printers, and it was the often-abused intelligent compositor who discovered that if it passed the Council every bather in Oakland would be compelled by law to bag his head. The ordinance was reported back, and is to come up for final disposition this week.