I don't know if this has changed since Oct 2021 or if you mistyped. I found the item.json file at: "Vintagestory\assets\game\entities\item.json"
It seems to be the same on a server install too.
There is a file at the path you describe called "label-paper-item.json" but not sure what that is.
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