Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1916 — Newspapers Forced to Be "Yellow" Now. [ARTICLE]

Newspapers Forced to Be "Yellow" Now.

And now the manufacturers of Print paper, each as is used in printing newspapers, claim to be “up against ft” because of the shortage in aniline dyes, brought about by tin great European war, and they have agreed to make print paper the natural color, which is a rather yellowish tint, same as that at present used in printing The Democrat. Imported dyes were used in the bleaching of print paper to make it white, and it seems that no substitute lnm .vet been discovered to take their place. It is for this reason that most of the newspapers are now being printed on a yellowish or natural tinted paper. The price of practically all grades of paper have been advanced from Ift to 25 per cent in the past few months, and the print paper advance has been about sls per ton, with a prospect of its going still higher. The Democrat was fortunato in contracting last August for a year’s supply, 12 tons, at a price sls per ton less than it would have to paynow.