1.

crop straighten
2. image size: resample image unchecked, change resolution to 300, press ok.
unsharp mask: 320%, 1.0, 0
image size again: check resample and scale widths and resize the height to 3000
duplicate background layer (ctrl + j)
3. topaz denoise 3: suppress noise .08, everything else 0
4. prelevel
5. topaz denoise 5: .5 (or however much you need to get rid of the paper texture
you don't need to get rid of everything just as much as possible without killing
details in blacks)
6. level blacks ONLY
7. topaz denoise 5 again: .3 (or again however much you need before you start
smearing the blacks)
8. image size: resize to 8000px height
9. final level
10. size down to 1300px height
11. canvas size: relative checked, add 100px to both height and widths
12. new layer, fill with white, move it underneath the cleaned layer and merge both
13. topaz clean
14. canvas size: -100px to both width and height
(optional)
merge the clean layer and raw layer together and then add a blank layer for bubble
wiping