Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1920 — NEWSPRINT TO GO TO 15c A POUND [ARTICLE]

NEWSPRINT TO GO TO 15c A POUND

Cincinnati, 0., April 7.—Bryant Venable, vice president of the Whitaked Paper Company, having vast paper warehouses and stocks in all the principal cities of the United States, today in an address before the Advertisers’ Club of this city predicted a further marked rise in the price of news print throughout America by June 15 to 15 cents per pound. Mr. Venerable stated further that “the price of news print and paper in general will never return to the pre-war basis because general conditions will never return.” Printing ink and paper must carry the burden of salesmanship until normal conditions are restored. Since 1914 the price of news print, according to Mr. Venable, has risen from 2 cents to 12 cents pet pound, and will continue to rise, regardless of efforts otherwise.