OBAN TIMES ON SHORT RATIONS

Along with recipes to stretch rations and offers of good cash prices for rabbits, rooks and game from suppliers across the UK and advice to farmers and gardeners to produce more, The Oban Times found itself on short rations.

Paper was getting harder to come by and the quality declined. In the archive you can see the crisp, sharp printing of 1914 gave way to smudges and missing parts of letters as print wore out and the ink bled into the poor paper.