Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 42, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 September 1944 — Jets Idea of Pulp Paper From a Wasp’s Nest [ARTICLE]

Jets Idea of Pulp Paper From a Wasp’s Nest

When a young German paper faaker, Gottfried Keller, kicked a wasps’ nest on a walk through the ivoods in the 19th century, he svas impressed by the nest’s texture, which was similar to rag paper produced at the mill where ie worked. He showed it to a chemist friend, and the two concluded the ?vasps made it from spruce tree liber. They succeeded in making paper from wood, and thus the pulp paper industry was born.