Grammage are the same weight paper having different cut size. However, a sheet of common copy paper that has a basis weight of does not have the same mass as the same size sheet of coarse paper (newsprint). In the former case, the standard ream is 500 sheets of paper, and in the latter, 500 sheets of paper. Here are some basic ream sizes for various types of paper. Units are inches except where noted. Sheets can be cut into four sheets, a standard for business stationery known conventionally as "letter sized paper". So, the ream became commonly used. The book-paper
Norman B. Ream Trust Company, also eloped, marrying Eleanor Pendleton, a stage actress. When they divorced in 1918, she received an alimony of US$210,000. Meanwhile, Edwin King Ream, eloped and married Nellie Speed Armstrong, the granddaughter of James Speed, who served as the 27th United States Attorney General, in 1911. Yet another son, Norman P. Ream, married Mary Green, the daughter of Adolphus W. Green, the founder of the National Biscuit Company on whose board Ream had served, in 1916. A daughter, Frances Matt, married John L. Kemmerer. Another daughter, Marion Buckingham Ream, first married Redmond B. Stevens, and later Anastasy Vonsyatsky, a