Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 25, 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’s also 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, August 25, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on natural gas before Josh Fox, a natural gas hustle and natural gas for garage safety. Note this feature will, henceforth, appear only occasionally as time and opportunity permit. We know several of you like it very much, so it will continue, just not weekly, as there is a lot of other natural gas news that must get out!
Before There Was Josh Fox There Was This!
Yes, natural gas has always been…well…natural:
25 Aug 1923, Sat The Marysville Appeal (Marysville, California) Newspapers.com
Yes, it happened long before the word “fracking” ever became part of our language.
The Oddest Natural Gas Story Ever?
Can you figure this one out?
25 Aug 1923, Sat Buffalo Courier Express (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
Sounds like the hospital was hustled, doesn’t it? At least there was enough natural gas for cooking!
Garage Heater to Keep Your Car Safe from Fire!
Sounds like such a deal, but the typo is a turn-off.
25 Aug 1923, Sat The Daily Sentinel-Tribune (Bowling Green, Ohio) Newspapers.com
Did you find it? Once again, we see proofreading wasn’t a priority in the old days!
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