[Magdalen] Cleaning and Disinfecting Churches

[Marion Thompson]

Maybe back then, but now the inks are different.

Marion, a pilgrim

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 6:38 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > - - -
> > Dorothy Collman
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> > List: dac7792 at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>