Papa and Tom Chaney arrived in Fort Smith and took a room at the Monarch boardinghouse.

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Mr. Knudsen was greatly amused to learn about a boardinghouse close to the factory on Manchester Avenue where 11 young Ford workmen lived.

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He did not take the loss like a man but went back to the room at the boardinghouse and sulled up like a possum.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

It was here that my mother learned the simple culinary art of making the beans and cornbread meal from her grandmother Charity, who ran a small boardinghouse that welcomed miners hoping to find work inside the damp hollows of the nearby mountains.

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