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Dixie
Paper - Facts Worth Knowing |
| Dixie
Paper Company is committed to helping you with more than just great
prices and great products. Here is some information we get asked
about frequently, and thought it would be helpful to everyone to
make this information available.
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The History of Papermaking |
| This stuff has been around for almost 2000 years!!! Imagine life without it.
The papermaking process has come a long way since 105 A.D. when Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese court official, invented paper. Paper as we know it today is what your are holding in your hand. In all likelihood, Ts'ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid, and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun. Thus began humanity's greatest revolution in communications.
William Rittenhouse and William Bradford founded the first North American paper mill in 1690 at Wissahickon Creek, near Philadelphia. Thanks to a great deal of imagination and hard work, they successfully collected, separated, cleaned, and recycled old cloth rags to make America's first writing papers. More Info... |
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News from the Center for Disease Control |
| "Handwashing is the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection."-- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CLEAN HANDS COALITION (CHC)
Spread the word & encourage others to celebrate National "Clean Hands" Week
September 18–24, 2005
Send a free e-card.
The Clean Hands Coalition is a unified alliance of public and private partners
working together to create and support coordinated, sustained initiatives to
significantly improve health and save lives through clean hands
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