Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 30, 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.
It’s 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 confidence in natural gas, hot air, natural gas leaks, the Queen and natural gas and boastful Canadians.
Confidence: Just One More Benefit of Natural Gas!
Last week it was comfort and wealth and this week it’s confidence; what could be better?
30 Jun 1923, Sat Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
Well, Northwest Utilities certainly had confidence in natural gas making it wealthy!
Cynical Humor or Simply Truth?
It’s not quite clear what this little blurb was all about but people were still taking about the Supremes telling states they couldn’t put up borders to keep natural gas in.
30 Jun 1923, Sat Arizona State Miner (Wickenburg, Arizona) Newspapers.com
I’d say it was cynical humor. How about you?
Well, Yes, But What Happened to the Boys?
Then, as now it’s often remarkable what reporters fail to tell about a story, in this case one about natural gas and some errant boys:
30 Jun 1923, Sat Mount Vernon Argus (White Plains, New York) Newspapers.com
Wouldn’t any normal reader want to know what happened to the boys? Or, are we to include a lot of reporters aren’t so normal?
The Queen Honors Clean Natural Gas!
The Greenville Natural Gas Company produced one clever ad after another a century ago:
30 Jun 1923, Sat The Record-Argus (Greenville, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Well, as Joe Biden says:
You tell ’em Joe!
Canadians Invented Natural Gas? Really?
Our boastful neighbors to the north got a bit carried away with this one, don’t you think?
30 Jun 1923, Sat The Kingston Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com
Yeah, I think natural gas is God’s gift to the world, not Canada’s. How about you?
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