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On the much-needed lighter note....
1909
Nov. 10: The Merchant's Association of San Francisco urges that because this has become a carnival city, the use of confetti on such occasions as the recent Portola Festival be regulated according to sanitary requirements. The association suggested: "As San Francisco has taken its rightful place as the carnival city of the world, it is incumbent on us to see that sanitary requirements are not outraged by the thrifty small boy who scoops up the bright bits of paper from the sidewalk and either sells them over again or uses them with too much precision himself. The method adopted by European cities is to permit the sale and use of but one color of confetti at a time. Once it falls, all colors mix and the throwing or selling of multi-colored confetti becomes evidence that it has been gathered from the street and subjects the offender to arrest. Such a measure is needed even in San Francisco, where carnival crowds have proved to be the most courteous in the world."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...PKNK1A52KS.DTL
1909
Nov. 10: The Merchant's Association of San Francisco urges that because this has become a carnival city, the use of confetti on such occasions as the recent Portola Festival be regulated according to sanitary requirements. The association suggested: "As San Francisco has taken its rightful place as the carnival city of the world, it is incumbent on us to see that sanitary requirements are not outraged by the thrifty small boy who scoops up the bright bits of paper from the sidewalk and either sells them over again or uses them with too much precision himself. The method adopted by European cities is to permit the sale and use of but one color of confetti at a time. Once it falls, all colors mix and the throwing or selling of multi-colored confetti becomes evidence that it has been gathered from the street and subjects the offender to arrest. Such a measure is needed even in San Francisco, where carnival crowds have proved to be the most courteous in the world."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...PKNK1A52KS.DTL