The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-05-17
A Curiosity for the Ladies:

We clip the f,llowin from the New York
Commercial Advertiser: ......
| There is on exhibition at the salesroom
of Messrs. Weller and Wilson, No. 625
Broadway. the first sewing machine No. /,
Der being about 30. O00 ".E a.i #".".
Let the interested compare the machine
sold in 1851 for SIPS with those now offered
for So. The former owner of this machine
gives its history as follows:
'',This machine was finished early inlS-
81, and learned it's use from Mr.. Wilson
himself | was thus. you see. the first to
work The Wheeler 81 Wilson machine, and
learned on the first machine they ever
manufactured s.a ~-.E .-H 80 a.
I'm 1854 I earned with the machine S295,
besides doing my own houSework and ia
king care ofiny baby. In 1856 we cam. 10
Davenport and brought the machine with
us. i believe it the first machine ever
brought 20 Iowa. r............,..- ....-... %.
II run that machine almost constan ly
for more than fourteen years, on all sorts
OF work. from the finest dressmak ing TO
the heaviest tailoring: quilted fnll sized
bed spread with il, which had been exhb-
tied three times at the fair. II took me
three weeks to do it with my other work
but it could not have been done by han
in as many years. ,f ] have even Gstiche
leather with it. and ut the time exchang-
IL IN 1863 for No $3.50, it worked just as
wen rs when made. .@"'t"" =. s.E
81 1T is perhaps necessary for me to add,
that believe the Wheeler & Wilson to be
vastly superior to any other machine
made. IT" -.t|1 ~ s#.r7 .'t.| -.fiH.I - .#}#"
"fonrsIrespectfully, p. T.. B".
Time tries alt things. Use only furnish
es the final test. Opinions Of the skilful
81 " IN ~ IA, t., Il
confirm them. All failures have had their
advocates. 1t is noteworthy that the sew
ing machine for which the highest pre-
MUM was awarded at the Worlds Fair
here in 1858 long since sank into n,erited
oblivion. The past fifteen years have seen
numerous machines, with high sounding
pretensions, rise with flourish, confound
the simple, and vanish. So will it be while
credulity lasts.
The Wheeler Wilson Company Fl xed up
On the Lock Stitch" as the one best suited
t" the general purposes of sewing, for per-
manence, beauty, elasticity and economy
of thread, and experience has confirmed
the preference. It was Mt liberty, then, as
now, to make a chain-stitch machine: and
even now, ut Il cost of less than ~ cts. each,
can adapt its lock stitch machine TO ma x y
the chnin-stitch as well as the lock stitch
but not believing in the stitch, has steadily
refused to give it any kind of Endorsement.
while this Company has given to the
public the best fruits of inventive genius
it has guarded it from a multitude oil traps
Attachments have been added for various
purposes, AS hemming, binding, braiding
cording, DC, but it has been kept free Of
all useless complications. Simplicity oi
parts and adaptation to the widest range oil
work, has been the constant aim. Instead
OF boasting OF u variety of useless stitches
and movements, it claims to make but one
kind OF stitch, and that with the fewes,
movements possible. Hence the machine
may run constantly for many years, like
tho No. ], above mentioned, or lifetime,
even, and work just as well rs when new.
With complication of parts and move.
nents 1t would require monthly repairs
and adjustments. AS the purchase of a
sewing machine is, or may be, an act for a
life time. care should be had in getting
what time and use have approved. "-CAs.
c1So Tribune, March 81, 1855. sus