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Look Out! $100 Reward - - Ranaway from the subscriber, living in Platte City, Missouri, on Monday the 25th instant (September 25, 1854), a Negro man named ARCHER, aged about 24; low and heavyset, say about 5 1/2 feet high, weighs about 160 pounds, dark copper color, slow and tolerably correct in speech, clothed probably in a gray tweed (with a small black stripe), woolen sack cloth, half worn, dark casinet pants, and other clothing not recollected. I brought him from Saline County about 6 years ago.
I will give $25 reward for said boy if taken in Platte, Clay, Buchanan or Clinton Counties and delivered to me; $50 is taken out of these and in the State, and $100 reward is taken out of the State and delivered to me. Stephen Johnston, Platte City, Sept. 27, 1854Date(s) of Creation
9/29/1854
