Word: toadsuck
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...listlessly through four states, the silt-strangled Arkansas River has brought devastating floods and fascinating legends to the hapless people along its banks, but not much else. Boatmen in the 1840s stopped near Conway to soak up liquor and lie in the sun until they swelled like toads, giving Toadsuck Ferry its name. At Dwight Mission, the Cherokee sage, Sequoyah, developed his syllabary in 1828, providing a written Indian language. Now Toadsuck Ferry is gone, replaced by a bridge, and Dwight Mission lies under the waters of a reservoir. Both are victims of one of the most ambitious and controversial...
...Brothers Bill and George ran away from their Toadsuck home. A third brother, now dead, went along. In 1895 they started a newspaper in the back room of a barber shop at Corsicana, Tex. Two years later the Murrays separated and George did not get in touch with Bill until Bill got into politics. When the Murray-For-President boom began, Brother George put Brother Bill's name in the North Dakota Democratic primaries to be held March 15. Last week they stumped the State together...
...Toadsuck. About the country Governor Murray continued to stump, stirring rural multitudes with speech after speech...
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