. .The days when drug stores sold “fine black sand from Lake Champlain" for use of penmen, were recalled with the discovery of six dust-covered packages on a store shelf in Potsdam, New York. William S, Remington, the druggist who found the sand, said it was wrapped in yellowed pages torn from an 1859 almanac. Each package contained eight ounces of the fine dust, which was once silted over writing to .blot excess ink.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 12
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