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longer a sleepy, backwoods town, but a rip-roaring mill camp with looking-for-trouble honky-tonks, pool halls, rooming houses, slick businessmen with waxed mustaches, and questionable ladies. after the woodlands were razed, residents looked to that fertile delta soil for their livelihood, planting cotton
and soybeans. until a quarter-century ago, agriculture reigned supreme in the blytheville-gosnell area. with the advent of mechanization farming required less manpower, resulting in significant cuts in the number of farm workers. many left for jobs in other places. cotton gins and former industry giants...
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