Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — Little Paper Made of Bags. [ARTICLE]

Little Paper Made of Bags.

The old copy-book line—“ Paper is made of rags"—has become obsolete, intact, *lf notin use. Formerly all paper was made out of rags, worn-out clothing and the like, and when such material as straw was first introduced there was a general outcry. Now, hdwever, comparatively little paper is made out of rags exclusively, a fact which is fortunate, as the quantity of paper how used is so great that there would not be enough worn out clothing or shoddy to supply the demand. The strangeness of it is that while paper is being used for dozens of purposes formerly monopolized by wood or even a harder material, such astfar wheels, boxes, barrels, tubs, so forth, wood is rapidly driving other ingredients to the wall in the manufacture of nearly all the cheaper jradesof paper.