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; The Grace Patterson Women‘s Institute Scrapbook, also to be known as hk Community Record Book, was established in midâ€"1983 by the Curator of Grace â€" ‘Retterson Women‘s Institute. | Clippings taken from the Town Crier, the Ingersoll Times, the London Free ‘ @g@ss as well as other local newspapers and magazines gradually swelled the brown & :er envelopes in which they were stored for protection against light. All items . haiw,@re community related. 11: in July, 1986 the Curator put all collected clippings through a solution fi_(fi milk of magnesia and club soda to neutralize the acidic residue in the newspaper H@’IPPJ-“QS This simple method, perhaps, will prevent yellowing and disintegration Kf@fi‘. the newsprint. | :! Method | fi‘\, Requirements: 1 quart of club soda, milk of magnesia, a plastic juice | _Hntalner with lid@, a 13x10 pyrex pan, old flannelette sheeting, nonâ€"acid paper r pressing and weights. - Preparation: Add two tablespoons of milk of magnesia to a quart of club | MQ@@da in the plastic container. Cover, shake well and carefully allowing the gases %@ escape. Place in the refrigerator. Shake three or four times during the next ifi@lf hour, always placing back in the refrigerator between shakings. Method: Place liquid in the pyrex pan. Immerse about three layers of @I_lzlpplngs in the solution, and let soak for thirty minutes. Carefully lift out @hze wet clippings, one at a time, to drain on flannelette sheeting and to dry. i“x@@)llow the same procedure to immerse the second lot of clippings in the same soluâ€" (t’filon The solution can be used three or four times altogether. | After the clippings have dried, press them between nonâ€"acid scrapbook - fl@ages under weights for several days. | In early August, 1986 three paste days were arranged to have Women‘s | ?j’m:;stitute members present to paste the clippings onto nonâ€"acid scrapbook paper. | The Curator was most grateful for the assistance of Ellen Patience, Annabelle Weir, . Ma;ry Larder, Phyliss MacArthur, Jessie Matheson, Marjory McKay, Thelma Henderson | gan Nola Gill. One hundred eightyâ€"eight pages were done. ? Paste . j Requirements: 76 grams (oneâ€"half cup) rice flour . t 600 milliliters water L Preparations: Cook in double boiler, stirring, until very thick. MB Harold Kerr - .. Eweator, 1981â€"1987