Printers' Ink Removed
Dear Aunt Daisy, A while ago I asked how to remove printers’ ink from grey trousers. Your suggested treatment, with the salts of lemon, did the trick in good time and with no damage to the fabric or my morale. "The Real McKay." The method given was to dissolve a dessertspoon of salts of lemon (oxalic acid) in about a breakfast cup of warm water. Lay the stained article on a folded towel, or clean blotting paper, and dab or mop the stain with successive bits of clean cotton-wool dipped in the solution. Do not rub the stain, just mop it, and watch it; in a few minutes (or even a little longer), the stain should fade away. Then rinse thoroughly fo get all the acid out-either under a swiftly running tap or in water containing baking soda, to kill the acid.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 476, 6 August 1948, Page 23
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145Printers' Ink Removed New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 476, 6 August 1948, Page 23
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