Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1854, JAN. 175 BUSINESS MEN BUSINESS MEN THE SEASON, CROPS, ETC. This was the famine year. Props were short in Missouri. but 11ea1lv a. failure in Kansas. H. D. Oden and others came over to solicit supplies for the starving people of Kansas; and liberal con- tributions were made. But the yea1" is more memorable as the beginning of the border warfare. that ended in the eivil war he- tween the North and South. JANUARY Jan. 1 - Dram-shops are freely licensed for $20 county tax. and $10 state tax. L. C. Jack buys of W. B. Almond the S. 1/2 of Block 40 in Platte City, and removes into town.