If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.
The Ghost town of Gladstone (maplewoodmn.gov) Maplewood has its own “Ghost Town.” English Street and Frost Avenue was the center of this now vanished city. In the final years of the nineteenth century it was a very different place.