There once was a pipe company in my town ?

[AndyCAYP]

Catalog ? in 1915 ?
I think that was a typo and it was 25,000 a month or year. 25,000 a day with 100 workers is 250 per employee with no real production equipment...

I'm sure we have a historical place in town. If I get a chance I'll see what I can find out, but now you're asking me to actually move my butt and do something.
I just figured you pipers know it all !

I agree about the typo. That said, who knows, they could have been mass-producing pipes (even at 25k a month) & sending them to Sears or something like A&P.

I find it odd that there's little mention of them online outside of references to this article and one notice in the 40s. You figure a place that had to have produced a few million pipes over the years would leave something behind more substantial than a newspaper clipping.

[WNYTONY]

I agree about the typo. That said, who knows, they could have been mass-producing pipes (even at 25k a month) & sending them to Sears or something like A&P.

I find it odd that there's little mention of them online outside of references to this article and one notice in the 40s. You figure a place that had to have produced a few million pipes over the years would leave something behind more substantial than a newspaper clipping.

I'll get working on it.