Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Materials of Paper. [ARTICLE]

Materials of Paper.

Paper can be manufactured out of almost anything that oan be pounded into pulp. Over fifty kinds of bark are said to be used, and banana skins, bean stalks, pea vines, cocoanut fibre, clover and timothy hay, straw, sea and fresh water weeds and many kinds of grass are applicable. It has also been made from hair, fur and wool, from asbestos, which furnishes an article indestructible by fire, from hop plants, from husks of any and every kind of grain. Leaves make a good strong paper, while the husks and stems of Indian corn have also been tried, and almost every kind of moss can be made into paper * There are patents for making paper from sawdust and shavings, from thistles and thistledown, from tobacco stalks and tanbark. It is said that there are over 2,000 patents in this country covering the manufacture of paper. /