Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — PAPER PRICES AGAIN SOARING [ARTICLE]

PAPER PRICES AGAIN SOARING

And Many Newspapers Are Forced to Increase Prices. The price of news print paper is now almost double the theretofore unheard of prices reached during the war, all because of alleged scarcity of raw material, and many newspapers have lately been forced to suspend, while others have met the situation by increasing the subscription price and raising theiy advertising rates. According to the last issue ot the Publishers’ Auxiliary, a trad* paper that goes Into every country newspaper office in the land, 13 cents per pound, f. o. b. mill was asked for a Vcarload of print in New York last week, and a big Chicago dally offered 10 cents pe* pound for 1,000 tons of roll print# and has not found a anill that will take the offer. Owing to The Democrat's for* tunate purchase of nearly a year’* supply a few months ago at cents a pound and having this sup* ply now on hand, it can weather the shortage until midsummer without being compelled to advance it# advertising rates or subscriptionWhile this price was about 2 to 2% cents a pound less than the high figures reached during the war, it is $2.05 per cwt. more than we were paying before we got into the rumpus. As we use about 2,000 pounds per month thli is quite an Important item.