Stained Wallpaper
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please tell me how to remove a grease stain from wallpaper? We are going to re-paper the room, but I am afraid the grease will penetrate the new paper. It looks as though someone has knocked over a bottle of hair oil all down it. "Kaitangata." Make a thick paste or plaster of carbon tetra chloride and powdered magnesia (both from the chemist). Cover the marks over thoroughly with this and leave it for 24 hours. Then litt it off carefully, with the back of a knife, and a brush. The stains be gore. If still slightly showing, use a piece of blotting-paper and a warm iron. Even so, it may be as well to paint the places over with a thin layer of size, or shellac, before re-papering, just in case some oil-stain may be left to work through on to the new paper.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 23
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152Stained Wallpaper New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 23
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