Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 21, 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 21, 1923.
There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate. Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 21, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of natural gas child play, woman’s tonic, lightening the kitchen workload, factories and running out of gas.
It’s Mine! No, It’s Mine!
Natural gas brings out the child in everyone!
21 Apr 1923, Sat The Daily Sentinel-Tribune (Bowling Green, Ohio) Newspapers.com
Restricting exports never works never works, yet everyone keeps trying, even today.
Natural Gas and Tonic Does Does Wonders!
This one terrific advertisement and notice how it blends the subjects of natural gas and tonic.
21 Apr 1923, Sat The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) Newspapers.com
Why knew natural gas could help sell a woman’s tonic?
That’s Not All Natural Gas Can Do for Women, Either!
Natural gas ranges were all the rage in 1923:
21 Apr 1923, Sat The Record-Argus (Greenville, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Now, Joe Biden wants to eliminate them everywhere but the White House!
Natural Gas Does Industry!
Natural gas was, and remains, the essential resource for economic development.
21 Apr 1923, Sat The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Oklahoma) Newspapers.com
Notice the optimism and the forward view of this article. Now, de-growthers would have us throw it all away.
But, There Was Unjustified Pessimism, Too!
Fear of running out of the precious resource was everywhere in 1923:
21 Apr 1923, Sat The Richmond Item (Richmond, Indiana) Newspapers.com
If only we learn to trust human ingenuity. The natural gas industry is the sterling example of it as we realize what has been accomplished over the last century.
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