Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1916 — MAY RAISE PRICE OF PAPERS [ARTICLE]

MAY RAISE PRICE OF PAPERS

Provincial Journals In Great Britain Are Hardest Hit by Pulp Shortage. London.— Owing to the Increased cost of print paper, due chiefly to high freights, a number of English newspapers, particularly in the provinces, are considering the question of coming to an agreement to raise their prices. They state that unless there is an in crease of the price at which newspapers are sold a great many of the provincial newspapers will cease to exist, or at any rate will be suspended for the duration of the war. Added to the high price of print paper is the increased cost of many accessoriesin_x.opnection with per production, great shortage of labor owing to the number of men who have gone from the printing trade into the army and the munition factories and the wages of boj awl other lal)or - ~ ~ -