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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1900
Page
6
Ralph Sturgis visits artist Sprague on New Year’s day and hints at a possible romance with a sitter. Sprague faces conflicting feelings about love and art as the conversation touches on risk and ambition. The New Year finds the artist torn between devotion to his muse and caution urged by a friend.
A portrait of Sprague as a dilettante in art and life. Lacking poverty's spur, he rarely sustained effort. Moments of intense focus led to creditable work, but the artistic fever soon waned.
In a old New York quarter resisting commerce a few brownstone houses stand as relics of a vanished aristocracy. Dr Murdock, renowned chemist and Newport yacht owner, studies newspapers while his elegant daughter Agnes enters quietly. The scene hints at wealth, science, and a city in flux as headlines catch the eye.
Murdock recalls a cryptic message about murder in the open and the unknown victim as the story unveils gossip and suspense. A young girl questions a portraitist about a pending appointment while a stern father questions time and truth. The frame hints at ongoing danger and a locked fate to be revealed in future installments.
A story from Gabinteely Ireland recounts Jessup and a friend stealing a horse and wagon at Las Mateo during a local festival. They discover the rig belongs to the head of a vigilance committee, confess via telegraph, and are forced to treat the house after the owner arrives, enduring social shaming under California custom.
A New York effort by Nathan Straus creates free milk depots with pasteurized milk for city poor babies. Central Park and Tompkins Square host new permanent booths selling milk at one cent a glass, using sterilization to kill germs.
Practical tips from the Millinery Trade Review cover steaming, ironing, and cleaning methods for crape tulle velvet moire and related materials. Instructions include using hot irons with steam, airing feathers in cornmeal, sponging silk laces with alcohol, and benzine or raphtha for dirty whites, all with safety notes and handling guidance.
The Garden of Gethsemane near St. Stephen's Gate and the Mount of Olives is now a small square enclosed by a high wall. Olives linger among stone-supported trunks while branches flourish. The garden, tied to Latin Christians, is contrasted with Greek church claims of another true site.
A garbled quotation notes a crowd trading over a dollar for a copper cent and mentions an English buyer paying vast sums for a woolen mill, reflecting curious exchange rates and inflated valuations in a bygone era. The fragment hints at economic whimsy and speculative prices in historical markets.
London women and misses adopt Gregan and Roman style sandals at fashionable watering places. Makers note most wearers are children and women, indoors for adults and general use for kids. Skepticism remains about sandals lasting as a permanent fashion due to weather and comfort concerns. Bombay sandals differ from Grecians, using kangaroo hide and flat soles suited to hot weather.
Tansy is described as a positive preventive against meth invasion as officials promote its use to curb drug-related odor and concerns in the community.
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