Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-09-05

These Machines BY their simplicity, durability and
the great range of work they execute,
have gained Il reputation truly
enviable.
The famous success of the SINGER MANUFACTURE
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other compan-
les to put forth all their energies and talents to
produce sewing machine that would eclipse OF
equal the Singer, but in every case they have sig
nally failed as is plainly shown by the fact, that OF
Mi tbe travelling aganfs-trunneTs or dr1Jmmers'
of 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 10 the housewife and the indusri-
Gus seamstress. 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, thai they 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 neiShbors family, which Is sure, by the 1n-
creased rapidity and with which it does every
kind of plain or fancy sewing, TO awaken them to
positive. although it may be silent acknowledge
mcnt 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-
flee, their curyedneedled, frailpowered unrelia-
ble-tensioned low-speeded or rave-stitched ma
chine for Singer Aei0 Family Machine.
Various expedents are resorted to, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the Singer for the pur-
pose Of introducing inferior machncs-viz, " The
Button Hole DodgeD ..The Oyer-Seaming" "The
Double Loci knot-stch." Elastic Stitch ""Twist-
ed Loop "Self-Adusting Tensions. +" Hing Finish
and Beautifully Ornamentcd,n "Straight Needle y
''Stltct- Alke-un- -DOt sides" Metals from fHfs
'Nertical Feed Bars . ''Noiseess Running" silent
Feed" and last and worst Of all, the lowpriced-
"Family shuttle Machines"
Many of these points are desirable, (and the
Singer excclls all in each individual speciality but
the greatest made of these special points, is by
the retail agent who parades them before the mex
! perenced purchaser with such fluent and earnest
style, to entirely divert attention from the really
/ important bearings of the case. While other limo
centloca agents ignorantly represent that the ma
chine sold by them is capable of doing every varie
ts of work, equdl to the Singer and often do they
| thus unconsciousy swindle customers who canno
afford to squander their substance upon gilde'
follies and worthless rattle-traps.
Parties in quest of a Sewing Machine should loo
about them and learn what machine is most eXten
svely used in families, tailor shops shoe factories
and carriage factories. II is an acknowledged fact
Freely admitted by all setrtng Dadctihe dedfers, Md
more than tcofhrds Of all the clothing cora in tht
country 6y both seEeS, rhether custom made read
made, Is actually manUtGctured upon THE SINGEI
SEWING MACHINE
These Machines are manufactured by one of tn,
oldest, strongest, and most enterprising Compan
les that has ever been engaged in the business IL
the world Throughout their immense manuiac
tories, which Kept in constant operation "day
and night" none but highly skilled mechanics are
employed. Newly improved machinery is EN-
ployed turning out each part finished to that me
chanical eXactness, that every one is perfect du
pcate of the other in size, weight and finish. All
new inventions are carefully examined and tested
| and if approved, are adopted, regardless of ex'
pense, while the many impractical humbugs that
are patented are left to grace some new wonder
and learn the purchaser when too late, that he has
! paid too dear for his whistle" 1t should be re-
membered that the Singer Manufacturing Com
! pany has never made q poor Machlne-irom the
very first twenty-odd years ago. They never buy
editorial notices, eNpend funds in ''log-rolling
at Fairs to gain medals or premiums.
They simply make their Machines as valuable as
money and science can perfect them-place then
in their Sales Rooms, and leave the public TO find
out their virtues in their own way BY this straight
forward course they are now manufacturing about
four hundred per day and at that rate, even, are
unable to supply the demand.