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lower Arkansas, and even the Mississippi.On some streams like Little River at Marked Tree, houseboats provided an underworld of gambling, bootlegged liquor and nightlife. There are still people alive who were raised on boats near Helena and St. Charles. St. Charles fisherman Boyd Smith remembers a man on the White River who shot at the steamboat Mary Woods because the pilot swamped the houseboat with the steamer’s wake. A floating houseboat with motor. The Cheops, pulled into Phillips Bayou (near the mouth of St. Francis River) in 1905 fitted with a moving picture show.
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Marianna Courier Index
Marianna, Arkansas, US
Thu, Nov 23, 1989
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