Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1916 — Hammond Times Raises Subscription Rates. [ARTICLE]

Hammond Times Raises Subscription Rates.

The Lake County Times at Hammond announces a raise in price of the Times on September 1 from one cent to two cents per single copy and also an raise in price to subscribers by the month. In making the announcement the Times says the increase in price is “because of almost prohibitive increases in the price of newsprint, ink, metals, roller composition, blankets, stereotype matrices, wrapping paper, twine, labor and in fact every single commodity and product used in newspaper making, in some cases being as high 200 per cent.” It also says that the Elkhart dailies have raised their prices to 2%c per copy for the 3ame reason.