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100 Years Ago: Gas Prices Spawn Local Investigation
Marlborough Patch will regularly highlight an interesting story from the Marlborough Daily Enterprise published on that date 100 years ago.
June 6, 1911: Aldermen Think Gas Should Be Cheaper: Order Investigation with Lower Prices in View
Cheaper gas for the city of Marlboro is the aim of an order presented by Alderman Hurley and adopted by the board of aldermen Monday night, instructing the committee on finance to take up the matter of cheaper gas for the people of Marlboro with the state board and also the managers of the local gas company and make whatever investigation necessary with view of reducing the price of gas for home consumers.
Alderman Hurley said that many business men had called his attention to the fact that when the electric and gs light companies consolidated it was given out that it meant cheaper gas. He thought that as the company was about to serve the population of 35,000 or 40,000, it could reduce the gas price to figures corresponding with those used in other places of the similar size.
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