Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — CHICAGO PUNS SANE FOURTH [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO PUNS SANE FOURTH

Police Will Keep This Year’s Celebration as Quiet as Possible. Chicago, June 11.—Mayor Busse has instructed the police department that the new fireworks ordinance is to be rigidly enforced next month. The provisions of the ordinance are: The discharge or possession by any person of toy pistols, toy guns, toy cannons, blank cartridges, firecrackers more than two Inches in length and one-fourth of an inch In diameter, or torpedoes more than three-fourths of an inch in diameter is strictly prohibited. The use or possession of torpedo canes or similar contrivances and of fireworks containing any explosive more powerful than black gunpowder is prohibited. Try The Democrat for Job work.