[Magdalen] Cleaning and Disinfecting Churches

[Scott Knitter]

In the first episode of Downton Abbey, when the newspaper arrives that
brings news of the Titanic disaster (that killed the next two heirs), the
staff irons the paper to keep ink from rubbing off. I wonder if that really
works?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:35 PM Dorothy Collman <dac7792 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I was got print edition newspapers, I would save the Sunday insert
> comics section. The three-color printing does not rub off the way the black
> ink does. I would use them to cover the table when my son had some project
> he was working on.
>
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> Dorothy Collman
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> > On Jun 30, 2020, at 10:10 AM, Louise Laughton <llaug2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ages ago, when every TB sanatorium in Northern NYS closed because
> antibiotics that cured the disease had made them obsolete, the question of
> books arose. Many of the TB sanatoria had excellent libraries that the
> small North Country community libraries could certainly use. Tests revealed
> that germs, including TB, didn’t survive on paper. I have no idea what the
> situation is when it’s a virus, not a bacterium, but germs really don’t
> survive on paper. That’s why, in a pinch, you can have clean “kitchen
> table” surgery if you cover the table with newspapers. (This, of course,
> assumes that there’s a stack of newspapers handy. Your iPad won’t work for
> this.) Anyhow, I wouldn’t worry about BCPs and hymnals, et al. The north
> Country libraries got lots of good books and no TB among the people who
> checked them out.
>
>

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA