Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-10-01

the great range of work they execute,
have gained q reputation truly
enviable.
The famous success of the sINGERAIASuFAcrUn.
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other compan-
les to put forth all their energies and talents to
produce a sewing machine that would eclipse or
equal the Singer but in every case they have sig,
all the travelling agents-'runners or drummers"
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 to the housewife and the industri-
Gus seamstress Parties purchasing sewing ma
chine of any sort, tnd 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 best until the spell
is broken by the Introduction of the Singer Of 1870
into neighbor'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 a
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 a heavy pecuniary sacri-
flee, their curved-needlee,, fail-powered unrelia-
ble-tensioned, low speeded or ravelsttched ma.
chine for a Singer 4ie,o Family Machine.
Various expedents are resorted to, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the singer for the pnr.
pose of introducing inferior machines-viz, I" The
Hole Dodge" THE Over-Seamingo "The
Double-Lock Knot Stitch ""Elastic Stitch, ,'"Twist
ed Loop" '.self-Adjustng Tensions" Hing Finish
and Beautifully Onamented," "Straght Needle
Stitch both. Sides" Medals from Fairs,
Feed" and last and worst of all, the low-priced-
Family shuttle Machines"
Many OF these points are desirable, (and the
Singer excells all in each individual speciality but
the greatest use made of these special points is by
the retail agent who parades them before the inex
perienced purchaser with such fluent and earnest
style, to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings of the case. While other inno-
cent local agents ignorany represent that the ma
chine sold by them is capable of doing every varie
ty Of work, equal to the Singer, and often do they
thus unconsciously swindle customers who cannot
afford to squander their substance upon gilded
follies and worthless rattle-traps.
PARTIES in quest of Sewing Machine should look
about them and learn what machine is most exten'
svely used in families, tailor shops shoe factories,
and carriage factories 1t is an acknowledged FACT.
Freely admitted by all se,ctng mdchtne dealers that
than tcothirds Of all the clothing arorn in this
made, Is actually MANUFACTURED upon THE SINGEk
| SEWING MACHINE }l hi
| These Machines are manufactured by one of the
oldest strongest, and most enterprising Compan-
les that has ever been engaged in the business In
the world Throughout their immense manufac-
tories, which are 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 eNactness, that every one Is perfect du
plicate of the other i'll SIZE weight and finish. All
new inventions are carefully examined and tested
and if approved 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
'pati too dear for his whistle" 1t should be
membered that the Singer Manufacturing Com
pany has never made poor Machine-from the
very first twenty-odd years ago They never buy
editorial notices, eXpend funds in "log-rolling"
at Fairs to gain medals or premiums.
They simply make their Machines as valuable as
money and science can perfect thcm-place them
in their sales Rooms, and leave the public to hnd
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