Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 28, 1923!

Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.

I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what was happening with natural gas. It is eye opening, given all we’ve learned over the last century. There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate. Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 28, 1923.

There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate. Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 28, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of making natural gas do useful work, New Yorkers getting Pennsylvania gas before Pennsylvanians, Utah natural gas discoveries, big jobs for the gas man and oil competes with coal and natural gas.

Let’s Make Natural Gas Do Useful Work

It’s hard to argue with this appeal to energy efficiency:

28 Apr 1923, Sat Portsmouth Daily Times (Portsmouth, Ohio) Newspapers.com

The headline, though, is an intriguing way of getting attention for an otherwise necessary but boring subject, isn’t it?

If Can Send it to New York, You Can Serve Us!

Watching natural gas being sent to New York while they couldn’t get any was too much for these folks:

28 Apr 1923, Sat The News-Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com It seems New Yorkers have always been depending on others to produce stuff for them! And, it’s only gotten worse over the years.

Natural Gas Discoveries Give Utah A Stimulus

The excitement over natural gas discoveries nearby is always palpable in news articles from a century ago:

28 Apr 1923, Sat The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) Newspapers.com Is there any such excitement today when a major solar or wind facility comes to town? No, it’s more likely there will opposition as Robert Bryce notes in a recent article.