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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
3
Grif Alexander writes from Pittsburg Dispatch on how urban noise replaces country quiet. He contrasts soot and towers with birds, streetcars, wheels, and city life, arguing the city shapes man more than the country. He notes nature’s call persists amid urban din and reflects on longing for simpler scenes.
Tom Atwood, an accomplished left guard and famed college boxer, travels west to mining work and confronts Ike Williams in a bar. Williams defends himself with a revolver, punches, and a head blow but refuses to shoot an unarmed man. Tom leaves wiser, realizing the tales misrepresented real danger and that Williams acted within a code of righting trouble without needless killing.
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