There once was a pipe company in my town ?

[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.