Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 23, 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.
There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate. Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 23, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of Buffalo flotsam & jetsam, banishing waste, adding comfort & wealth, cool kitchens and natural gas at 35 cents.
Buffalo Flotsam and Jetsam
Some things never change and there is surely a lot of truth about more than just natural gas in this letter to the editor:
23 Jun 1923, Sat Buffalo Truth (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
The point, of course, is that government cannot do anything as efficiently as private enterprise when it comes to services and that remains as true today as in 1923.
Natural Gas Banishes Waste
Not only that, but natural gas has no equal for efficiency and convenience:
23 Jun 1923, Sat Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
Now, only if Joe Biden and certain lemming-like blue state governors understood these basics.
And, Natural Gas Adds Comfort & Wealth, Too!
Yes, that’s also still true.
23 Jun 1923, Sat The Waco News-Tribune (Waco, Texas) Newspapers.com
Building a great state like Texas is no easy task but natural gas was a big part of it in a state where everything is big.
Plus, A Cool Kitchen Is A Joy Forever!
Who can argue?
23 Jun 1923, Sat The Record-Argus (Greenville, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Natural gas was cool before air conditioning!
Natural Gas at 35 Cents!
Great marketing!
23 Jun 1923, Sat Buffalo Morning Express (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
And, it wasn’t just hype. Here is Delawanda Heights today.
‘ Delawanda Heights today, a century later
The advertisement was true. Natural gas is the foundation of sustainable communities as it turns out.
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