Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-08-12

The famous success of the SINGER MASUFAcrUR.
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other COM
produce Il sewing machine that would eclipse or
equal the Singer, but in every case they have sig
all the travelling agents-''runners or drummers"
oil other companies none have the assurance TO
claim more than an equality with the Singer, even
upon any special class OF WORK
There are many sewing machines, now offered to
the public. that have their good points. and are of
much assistance to the housewife and the industri
Gus seanstress. Parties purchasing a sewing ma
chine OF any sort, find the Improvement on the old
fashioned way of sewing by hand so great and
pleasing, that they are naturally but enormously
led TO believe that they have the best until the spell
is broken by the Introduction of the Singer Of 1870
into neighboTs family, which is sure by the in.
creased rapidty and ease with which ii does every
kind OF plain or fancy sewing, to awaken them to
positive. although it may be silent acknowledge.
ment OF the painful truth that there are very many
varieties OF work that are easily executed upon the
Singer but that they must either be content to do
without, or exchange, at heavy pecuniary sacri-
lice, their curvedneedled, frail-powered unrelia-
ble-tensioned, low-speeded or ravcl-stltcbed ma
chine for a Singer Nec Family Machine
Various eXpedients are res0Ited to, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the Singer tor the pur.
pose Of Introducing inferior machines-viz, The
Double Lock Knot Stitch Elastic stitch "'Twist-
ed Loop" SELF Adjusting Tensions" High Finish
'Sttch All both sides ""Nledals from FAIRS"
Vertical Feed Bars' ''Noisele=s Running" 81
lent Feed" aud last and worst OF al! the low-prced
-"FamIy shuttle Machines"
Many OF these points desirable, (and the
Singer eXceiis all in each individual speciality but
the greatest made of these special points Is by
the retail agent who parades them before the mex
perleuced purchaser with such nueat and earnest
style to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings Of the case While other inno-
cent local agents .uorantly represent that the ma.
chine sold by them Is capable OF dong every NarIe-
" OF WORK eYtdL tn the Singer, and often do they
thu, uncousciou,ly wndie cus toners who cannot
afford to squantter their substance upon gilded
loilies AID worthless rattle-traps.
Parties in quest o! sewing Machine should look
about them and learn what machine i most extern
svely used in families, tailor shops -hOe factories,
and carriage factories 1T Is an acknowledged fact,
ireeiy aaHitttd ny al serHg mochiHe Gedters, that
more Na1t trothrds of all the clothing in this
country by both .chethe5 custom mute reGdy
made Is actually manufactured upon THE SINGER
SEWING MACHINE.
These Machines are manufactured by one of the
Oldest, strongest, and most enterprlsng Compan-
les that has ever been engaged in the business IN
the world. Throughout their immense manufac-
tories, which Kept in constant operation day
and night" none bat highly skilled mechanics are
employed. Newly improved machinery is en-
pluved turning out each part finished 10 that me-
chancal cNactIess, that every one Is perfect du.
plicate of the other in size, weight and finish. All
new inventions are carefully examined and tested,
and if approved, are adopted, regardless OF eX
pen-c, while the many impractical humbugs that
are patented, are left 10 grace some new wonder
and learn the prchst- when too late, that he has
paid too dear for hi, whistle" 1t should be
me mbered that the Singer Manufacturing Com
pany has never made poor Machine-trom the
very hrst twenty odd years ago. They never buy
editorial notices, expend funds in log rolling"
at Fairs to gaia medals or premiums.
They simply make their Machines as valuable as
money and science can perfect theln-place them
in their Sales Rooms, and leave the pubic TO find
their virtues in their own way by this straight
four hundred per day, aud at that rate even, are
unable to supply the demand