The "American Encyclopædia" gives the following extensive, though [Pg 5] incomplete, list of substances from which paper has been made: "Acacia, althæa, American aloe or maguey, artichoke, asparagus, aspen, bamboo, banana, basswood, bean vines, bluegrass, broom, buckwheat straw, bulrushes, cane, cattail, cedar, china grass, clematis, clover, cork, corn husks and stalks, cotton, couch grass, elder, elm, esparto grass, ferns, fir, flags, flax, grape vine, many grasses, hemp, hop vines, horse chestnut, indigo, jute, mulberry bark and wood; mummy cloth, oak, oakum and straw, osier, palm, palmetto, pampas grass, papyrus, pea vines, pine, plantain, poplar, potato vines, rags of all kinds, reeds, rice straw, ropes, rye straw, sedge grass, silk, silk cotton (bombax), sorghum, spruce, thistles, tobacco, wheat straw, waste paper, willow, and wool."
— from The Daily Newspaper: The History of Its Production and Distibution by Anonymous

A A A Flavelle F F F F Fleisher F F F F Flint F F F F Gerdes F F F F Gibbons F A F Gillis F F F F Greer
— from Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 by Franklin Hichborn

A A A A Gerdes F Gibbons F F F F Gillis F F F F Greer
— from Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 by Franklin Hichborn

Not far away, still lives a patriarch of this restricted family, flat topped and gnarled and like a Baobab, its branches taking root all round the stem, and running on the ground for fully fifty feet, goats climbing on its limbs, snails clinging to the leaves, pieces p. 53 of rag tied to the boughs by passing Arabs, reminding one of the Gualichu
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham