Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-15
These Machines, by their simplicity, durability
and the great range of work they execute,
have gained reputation truly

The famous success of the SINGER MANUFACTURE
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other com
panies to put forth all their energies and talents to
produce sewing machine that would eclipse or
equal the Singer, but in every case they have sig
nally tailed, as is plainly shown by the fact, that of
all the travelling aScnts-'runncrs or drunmers"
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 ndustri-
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 that they are naturally, but errOneousl y,
led to believe that they have the best until the spell
Is broken by the introduction Of the Singer Of 1870
into neigibor's family, which is sure, by the in
creased rapdty and ease with which it 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 sacr
be-tensoned, low-speeded or ravcl-stitched ma
chine for Singer Nee Family hachi"e
Various eXpedient- are resorted to, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the singer for the pur-
pose of Introducing inferior machines-yiz, The
Button-iIoe Dodge" The over Scanning" The
Double '"Elastic stitch, ""Twist-
ed Loop" "selt- Adjusting Tensions -" High Finish
and Beautifully Ornrmented," "Strught Needle"
Vertical Feed Barr" 'Noselcss Running 'si-
lent Feed aud last and worst of all the low priced
Family Shuttle Machines
singer eNCells all III each individual speciality but
the greatest made of these special points, is by
the retail agent who paradcs them before the mex
perienccd purchaser with such fluent and earnest
style, to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings of the case. While other nno-
cent local agcnt- i.noranty represent that the ma
chine sold by them il capable of doing every vare-
ty of work, eYtt0i to the Singer, and often do they
TINS uncOnsclously swindle customers Nho cannot
afford to squander their substance upon gided
follies and worthless rattle-traps.
Parties in quest of "A Sewing Machine should look
about them and learn what machine Is most extern
svely used i'll families tailor shops, shoe factories,
and carriage factories IL is an acknowledged ftct,
mare than trothrds IF al the clothing ~orn IN this
country By both seres, rhether custom, Dade or ready
mate is actually manufactured upon THE SINGER
SEWING MACHINE.
oldest. strongest. and most enterprisng Compan-
les that has ever been engaged i'll the business i'll
the world. Throughout their immense manufac-
tories, which are kept in constant operation day
and night none but highly skilled mechanics
employed. Newly improved machinery is en-
piuyed turning out each part finished to that me-
chancal eXaCtness, that every one Is perfect du-
pllcae 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 hunbugs 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
memhered that the Singer Manufacturing Com
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 thCln-pldce them
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, aud at that rate, even, are