Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1919 — NEWS PRINT PAPER SOARING; SITUATION IS ALARMING. [ARTICLE]

NEWS PRINT PAPER SOARING; SITUATION IS ALARMING.

F The- -price- oETnews,. pnnX paper; g. soaring skyward, with the limit nowhere in sight, and every newspaper publisher forceTTy circumstances to bid for every pound of print paper : that can be secured. Never m mstory has the print paper situation been as desperate as at the present i time and unless relief comes within : a few months many papers will be ' forced out of business on account i of being unabhe to obtain paper at ' any price. , j Not only is the country publisher being affected, but the city publisher as well. Thirteen cents a pound f. z o b. mill was asked for car load lots in New York last week, which is about three times the normal price. One Chicago newspaper offered ten cents" a pound for 1,000 tons if roll print, and has net fonnd a mill that will take the order. The Chicago papers are being forced to '.omit a large amount of advertising from every issue because of the shortage of nrint paper.