Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1916 — WILL HALT “PAPER” SHOES [ARTICLE]

WILL HALT “PAPER” SHOES

Germany Takes Steps to Check Use of the Material, Which Was Becoming Too Extensive. London.—The use of compressed paper for the making of shoes has become so extensive in Germany that the authorities have taken action to check the manufacture and sale of such shoes. The German papers explain that the trade in shoes with paper soles is bad for the public and for the manufacturers, because the shoes wear out very quickly and the leather which forms part of them is wasted. Manufacturers are now to be allowed to use paper in shoes to only a very limited extent and will be compelled to mark their products in such a way as,to show exactly what parts of them are not made of leather.