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Speaker 1: Hello and Welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry, I'm

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Speaker 1: Trey Pevie Wilson. Uh, and today's topic is a request

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Speaker 1: by our listener, Jordan's. We're talking about a hotel with

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Speaker 1: that this is a hotel that has had many identities

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Speaker 1: in its hundred and thirty two years since it first opened,

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Speaker 1: but the most colorful phase involved some quackery and incredibly

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about the Crescent Hotel and Norman Baker,

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Speaker 1: and we're just going to jump right into kind of

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Speaker 1: So it'll be a little early springtime ghost story to

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Speaker 1: start at the beginning. In eighteen eighty two, the Eureka

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Speaker 1: Carpetbagger and former Arkansas Governor Powell Clayton founded the company

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Speaker 1: curative properties. The magical healing reputation was started when a

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Speaker 1: was part of the larger effort by the Eureka Springs

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Speaker 1: In eighteen eighty five, while the hotel was still being built,

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Speaker 1: Norman was born on November two in Muscotine, Iowa, and

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Speaker 1: his parents, John and Francis Baker had ten children. Norman

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