Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 8, 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, September 8, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on the coldest room on Earth, new wells in the Empire State and natural gas for power!
Now That’s Cold!
The coldest room on Earth they said in 1923:
08 Sep 1923, Sat Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, Hawaii) Newspapers.com
Note, too, how important natural gas was in 1923 for producing helium, and it’s still true today!
Danville, New York, Gets More Gas!
Once upon time, pre-Cuomo and pre-Hochul, New York took pride in its natural gas:
08 Sep 1923, Sat The Buffalo Enquirer (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
Energy security was a thing then, too!
Natural Gas for Power!
Back in the day when internal combustion engines were recognized for the miracle they are!
08 Sep 1923, Sat The Edmonton Bulletin (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
Isn’t it amazing how perspectives have changed as one spoiled generation after another has forgotten the miracle?
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