It shall be unlawful for any person to erect, carry on, conduct, maintain or operate, in the city or within one (1) mile of the corporate limits of the city, any gambling house or place of any kind in which any gambling games are conducted, or any kind of banking or percentage game is played with cards, dice or other device for money, checks, credits or any other representative of value; or any house of prostitution or assignation; or any other offensive or unwholesome business or establishment.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, ยง 30)