Advertising or Waste -- Or Both?

ID: 1902 ~ Source: Indiana Historical Society ~ Creator: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ~ Date: 1889

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A cover illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in 1889 depicting the burning flares, “flambeau,” that were used in some communities to advertise their supposedly never-ending supplies of natural gas.

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Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

By Howard County Historical Society

The use of natural gas as fuel goes back to the 1820s, but its real value didn’t become apparent until the 1880s. The discovery of a gas reserve in Pennsylvania revolutionized the steel and glass manufacturing industries there in the 1870s and…