Word: canandaigua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agent in Elmira, snatched the company out of a receivership, putting up $350 to help meet a payroll. He reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., which Mr. Willys expanded and controlled during...
...Another famed onetime bicycle maker is Motor Tycoon John North Willys, 55, who did business at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport. In 1917 he helped Mr. Curtiss expand Curtiss Motor and Plane production for war demands, by acquiring controlling stack of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Mr. Keys, president, now has control...
Died. Lydia N. Willys, 83, of Canandaigua, N. Y., mother of Motormaker John North Willys; at Canandaigua...
...crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth. On the limb of an oak tree not far off, stood another. Soon the squirrel on the oak limb picked up an acorn, moistened it as if about to throw a spitball, pirouetted with an acorn clasped...
...bought a laundry at Canandaigua, N. Y., his birthplace, sold it a year later at a profit. Then he sold bicycles. Still later he became one of the first automobile salesmen in the country, so successful that he could buy over the old, failing Overland...