Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 4, 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, July 28, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on “cheap fuel vital to industry,” oven canning, water yielding natural gas, what’s not part of your natural gas bill and bringing natural gas to town.
Yes, Like Canned Beer, It’s Cheap and Plentiful!
Don’t you love it?
04 Aug 1923, Sat Clarion-News (Opelousas, Louisiana) Newspapers.com
Still true, too!
What Can’t Natural Gas Accomplish?
The appeals to the women of the house continue…
04 Aug 1923, Sat Calgary Herald (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
The ads are wonderful in their simple appeals, aren’t they? Today, it’s often hard to know what an ad is even about at times.
Yes, Water Is Yielded from Burning Natural Gas
This simple fact of chemistry is often lost on people yet today.
04 Aug 1923, Sat Iowa City Press-Citizen (Iowa City, Iowa) Newspapers.com
This is why all the talk about water withdrawals for drilling and fracking are so much poppycock.
Another Good Advertisement!
The Greenville Gas Company had a great PR program!
04 Aug 1923, Sat The Record-Argus (Greenville, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Again, simple and direct appeals to common sense.
More Celebration of Natural Gas Coning to Town
This story is just another in a long line that continues a century later.
04 Aug 1923, Sat The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana) Newspapers.com
It just doesn’t get better than natural gas, yesterday and today!
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