Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, December 23, 1922!
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, December 23, 1922. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of oil town gets gas, a $100 fine, shots fired in Hogshooter, more on theft Bolshevik theft and a Merry Christmas.
An Oil Town Gets Natural Gas
Oil towns didn’t always have direct access to natural gas so it was a big deal when they got it:
23 Dec 1922, Sat Great Falls Tribune (Great Falls, Montana) Newspapers.com
Good old fashioned news reporting and natural gas coming to town a century was big news as it is now as well.
You Mean the Fine Was Leverage? Hmm…
Franklin is next door to Oil City, Pennsylvania and a fierce competitor yet today, so that is the back story here.
23 Dec 1922, Sat The News-Herald (Franklin, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Yes, politics always intrudes, doesn’t it?
Shots Fired in Hogshooter!
Oh, the irony!
23 Dec 1922, Sat The Tulsa Tribune (Tulsa, Oklahoma) Newspapers.com
But, what does a natural gas “store” sell anyway?
Bolshevik Mayor of Drumright Claims Victory for His Theft!
Continuing our story from last week:
23 Dec 1922, Sat Grant County Republican (Ulysses, Kansas) Newspapers.com
Yes, politicians usually claim theft as a victory for the people, don’t they?
Christmas Spirit Lives in Winfield
Well, theft is hardly in keeping with Christmas, but wishing customers and neighbors well is, so let’s end on this note:
23 Dec 1922, Sat Winfield Daily Courier (Winfield, Kansas) Newspapers.com
Merry Christmas, 2022!
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