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Saving the News

1 Yesterday’s news is today’s time bomb. Old newspapers and clippings are born toxic, printed on high-acid, cheap newsprint and crumbling into oblivion every day. And this acidic paper is toxic to anything it touches, especially other papers and cloth. Protect your archive by removing clippings from old Bibles, books and

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