Whitespace getting stripped from ingested items

[mikesname]

At some point we started normalizing text elements using StringUtils, which strips newlines and leading spaces. This can make text unreadable. Ideally we should:

• handle EAD formatting elements by converting to HTML if possible
• at least preserve newlines and leading spaces, which can be semantically meaningful

Figuring out how to render it meaningfully is a different problem.

Might also want to substitute Markdown-meaningful elements like asterisks for their HTML entities, e.g. *.