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1860s newsprint

March 26, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)

The Southern Recorder says:   “Our last bill for printing paper, such as we now use for the Recorder, was at the rate of $14 per ream.   Of the propriety of raising the price of subscription our readers can judge, when we state that paper of the same size formerly cost $3, which, compared to present rates, shows an advance of nearly five hundred per cent.

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