Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, December 9, 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 9, 1922. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of hearths, extras at no cost, wood for the cheap, tax envy and reducing women’s work.
Tis the Season!
Natural gas promotion took on the Christmas Spirit in this Pennsylvania advertisement a century ago:
09 Dec 1922, Sat The Record-Argus (Greenville, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
“The Little Gas Heater Gets A Warm Welcome” — not a bad slogan, not bad at all.
Extra Value at No Cost!
Meanwhile, a Texas gas company was noting natural gas was an extra for consumers at no additional cost:
09 Dec 1922, Sat The Courier-Gazette (McKinney, Texas) Newspapers.com
Natural gas was the cool new thing in 1922 and still is!
Wood for Those Too Cheap to Buy Gas?
A wood flooring company in Louisiana, supposing it might have a unique opportunity to compete with natural gas, offered waste wood for 25 cents per load:
09 Dec 1922, Sat The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana) Newspapers.com
Was this a Tom Sawyer move? Convince those too cheap to buy gas that they should save the flooring company money by hauling away waste wood at no cost to itself?
Let’s Tax Something!
It never ends does it? But, remember, it was always this way with politicians:
09 Dec 1922, Sat The Kane Republican (Kane, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Notice politicians always label it a “revenue problem” never a spending problem.
Canadian Politician Promise Less Woman’s Work!
Yes, politicians always demand more so they can promise more but, in this instance, the Mayor of Edmonton gave himself credit for the benefits of natural gas that he claimed reduced woman’s work by 25%.
09 Dec 1922, Sat Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
There’s nothing a politician won’t tax or claim the credit for accomplishing is there?
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