Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — Prices On Old Rags and Paper Soaring Fast. [ARTICLE]

Prices On Old Rags and Paper Soaring Fast.

Rensselaer housewives should respond with a vim to the appeal for the old paper and rags. Never before in years gone by have the pleas been so urgent as this spring. The European war has wrought havoc with the wood pulp and linen rag importations from across the seas and as a last resort the American manufacturers have turned to the rag man. According to the latest quotations of paper jobbers and dealers in rags the/paper market has advanced in the past six weeks from 25 to 100 .per cent. ~ M. V. Wiggins, president of the Crescent paper company, said that he believed that the proposed embargoes on the exportation of wood pulp and finished paper products from the U.' S. was the only way . to relieve the strain and prevent the rise in paper. Fred J:. Ostermyer, president of the Indiana Paper Co., gave, his hearty approval of the campaign to stimulate a nation wide interest in the saving of old paper and rags. Let every Rensselaer housewife save everything available in rags and paper and help relieve the strained conditions that now exist.