CHAPTER VI 

 The Paper Age 



The uses of paper and wood pulp; newspapers 

 and advertising; books, writing paper, wrapping 

 paper, card-board, paper-board, papier mache, etc. 



We are today living in a veritable age of paper. 

 The annual value of all our paper and other 

 similar products made from wood pulp, already not 

 less than eight hundred million dollars, is constantly 

 growing, and further developments are limited only 

 by the supply of raw material. That material Is 

 wood. 



Of all the paper that we see in various forms, 

 newspaper naturally assumes the greatest impor- 

 tance. There are twenty-five hundred different 

 daily papers published in the United States, besides 

 some fifteen thousand weeklies and similar periodi- 

 cals. The daily papers alone have a circulation in 

 excess of twenty-eight million copies; in fact, over 

 a hundred of them print more than a hundred 

 thousand copies each every twenty-four hours. 

 Astronomers tell us that the sun is something 

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