Buffalo Tips (July/august 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 5)

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July/august 1990 | Volume 41, Issue 5

Mr. Block’s suspicion that toads had something to do with the naming of Toad Suck, Arkansas, is at least partially correct, according to an article in a Little Rock newspaper. The story reported that Toad Suck got its start as a town on the Arkansas River that contained several bars at which boatmen “sucked on the bottles like toads” upon coming ashore.