Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-08-03

The famous success of the SINGER MANUFACTURE
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other COM
produce sewing machine that would eclipse or
equal the S!nger, but in every ease they have sfg-
nay tailed, as is plainly shown by the fact that oi
all the travelling agents-"runners or drummers''
of other companies. none have the assurance TO
claim more than 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 AS ,istance to the hors ewife and the indusri-
Gus seamstress. Parties purchasing sewing ma
chine ofcRy sort, find the Improvement on the OLD
fashioned way of sewing by hand so great and
pleasing that they naturally. but enormously,
led TO believe that they have the beet Gnt the spell
is broken by the introduction of the Singer Of 1870
into meighbor's family, which Is sure by the IN
creased rapidity and ease with which it does every
kind of plain or fancy sewing, to awaken them to n
positive. ;though il may be silent acknowledge
nent OF the painful truth that there are very many
varieties of work that easily executed upon the
Singer, bul that they must either be content to do
without, or exchange, at a heavy pecnnIary sarri-
flee, their curyedneedled, frail powered, unrella
ble-tensioned, low-speeded or ravelstitched ma
chine for Singer NeT Family Machine -.,
Various expedients are resurted to, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the Singer for the pnr-
pose of introducing interior machines-viz, The
Button-IIoe Dodge" The Oversee ming" The
ed Leop,n sSelf- Ad justng nsons ,n's gh Finish
and Beautifully Ornrmented," "Strught Needle
Vertical Feed Barsm "Noiseless Running" Isl
lent Feed" and last and worst Of all the lowpriced
Family shuttle Machines n
Singer excels III III each Individual speciality but
the greatest use made Of these special points is by
the retail igcnt who parades them before the mex
perjenced pnrchAser with such fluent and earnest
style to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearngs of the case While other inno-
cent local agents igu0raDtly represent that the
chine sold by them is capable Of doing every varie
ty of work. equaI to the Singer, and often do they
thu, unconsciol,sly swntle customers who cannot
afford to sauander their substance upon gildvd
follies and worthless rattle-traps
Parties in quest of a Sewing Machine should look
about them and learn what machine Is most extern
and caIriage factories. 1T Is acksociefged feet,
Ireety admitted by all sefrsng machi,e dealers, TINT
more than tro-fkirds Of all the clothing in this
country or both sereS hether custem made ready
made is ACTUALLY manufactured upon THE SINGER
SEWING MACHISE @&M
These Machines are manufactured by one OF the
Oldest, strongest, and most eRterpri-ihg COmpan.
les that has been engaged in the business In
the world. Throughout tnelr immense manufac-
tories which are keit IN constant opera ion ''day
and night" none but highly skilled mechanics are
employed. Newly improved machinery Is en-
ploye,i turning ont each part fnih he'd tn that me-
chanical xactnes- 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-
pense while the many impractical httmbugs that
are patented, are leit to grace some new wonder
and learn the lure has er when too late that he has
sspad too dear for hi whistle" 1t should be re-
nembered that the Singer Manufacturing Com.
pany has never made apoor Mathine-hom the
VERY first twenty-Odd years ago. They never buy
! ell torial notices, expend funds ia log rolling"
at Fairs to gain medals or premiums.
They simply make their Machines RS valuable as
money and science can perfect then-place them
in their Sales Rooms, and leave the puliic to find
ont 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