No itinerant person, by agent or otherwise, shall offer to sell, vend, barter or exchange any merchandise, goods, wares, chattels or personal property at public auction or private sale, under any scheme, name, means or device commonly known as an auction sale, bankrupt sale, fire sale, closing out sale, advertising sale, or advertise under any such heading, title or name, or by any method of similar import, without first obtaining a license therefor from the City Clerk, attested by him or her, upon payment of a license fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per day. As used in this section, "itinerant merchant" means a person remaining or expecting to remain in business less than 100 days.
(1942 Code Chap. XXXV, Sec. 7)