The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-05-17
A Curiosity for the Ladies.

We clip the following from the New
York Commercial advertiser:
There is on exhibition at the sales
room of Messrs. Wheeler 4 Wilson, No.
625 Broadway, the first sewing machine
| NO. II made by that company, the pres
ent number being about 10000. Let
the interested compare the machine sold
in 1851 for S125 with those now offered
for So. The former owner of this ma
chine gives its history as follows:
This machine was finished early in
1851 and / learned its use from Mr.. Will
son himself. was thus, you see, the
chine they ever manufactured.
"In 1854 I earned with the machine
S295 besides doing my own homework
and taking care of my baby. In 1856
we came to Davenport and brought the
machine with us. l believe it the first
machine ever brought to Iowa.
II run that machine almost constant
for more than fourteen years, Oh all sorts
of work, from the finest dressmaking to
the heaviest tailoring; / quilted a full
sized ded-spread with it, which had
been exhibited three times at the fair.
1t took me three weeks to do it with
my other work; but it could not have
been done by hand in as many years.
have even stitched leather with it, and
at the time exchanged in 1865 for No.
1913, 800, it worked just as we'll as when
made.
at is perhaps, unnecessary for me to
add, that believe the Wheeler & Will
son to he vastly superior to any other
machine made.
Time i t;ss :. rei ,PS;nss s PIE r
nishes the final test. Opinions of the
skillful may be of value, but time 10
have had their advocates. 1t is note
worthy that the sewing machine for
which the highest premium was awarded
at the Worlds Fair here in 1853 long
since sank into nerited oblivion. The
past fifteen years have seen numerous
machines, with high sounding preten-
tons, rise with flourish, confound the
simple, and vaniah. So will it be while
credulity lasts.
The Wheeler Wilson Company fixed
upon the "LOck Stitch" as the one best
suited to the general purposea of sewing,
for beauty, permanence, elasticity and
economy of thread, and experience has
the preference. It was at lib
crty, then. rs now, to make chain
stitch machine and even now, at cost
OF less Iilan ~ cents cslSl, cill AuApC It's
lock-stitch machine to make the chain
stitch as well as the lock-stitch, but not
believing in the stitch, has steadily re-
fused to give it any kind Of indorse-
ment.
""'lile this Company has given to the
TIE pablo the best fruits of inventive &c.
MUS, it has guarded it from u multitude
of traps. Attachments have been added
for various purposes, as hemming, bind
ing, braiding, cording, &C., but it
it has kept free of useless complications.
Simplicity of parts and adoption to the
widest range Of work, has been the con-
s.,-t aim. Instead of Boosting of va
r;cty ofuseless stitches and movements,
1t claims to make but one kind Of stitch,
and that with the fewest movements
possible. Hence the machine may run
constantly for many years like the No.
Isove mentioned, or a lifetime, even, and
work just rs well as when new. With a
complication Of parts and movements It
would require monthly repairs and adj
justmcnts. AS the purchase Of sewing
machine is, or may be, an act for life
time, care should be had in getting what
time and use have appproved."-Chicd-
90 Tribune, March, 81, 1865.