Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-27
IMPORTANT FACTS!
For the Public.
NEW EASTERN DEPOT
FOR TIE WORLD RENOWNED
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SEWING MACHING Is.
Opposite the Post Office,
AUGUSTA, MAINE.
These Machines, by their simplicity, durability
and the great range of work they execute,
have gained reputation truly
eDyiable.

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and the great range of work they execute,
have gained reputation truly
enyiable.
The famous success of the SINGER MANUFACTI
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
naly failed, is plainly shown by the fact that Of
all the travelling agents-'runners or tirummcrs"
of other companies none have the assurance to
ctGim 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 indu str-
Gus 'sealnstress. Parties purchasing sewing ma
chime OF any sort, mud 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 neighbors family, which is sure, by the in
a 90 raPdy and eye with which it does every
positive, although il 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 ito
without, or exchange, at heavy pecunary sacri-
ice, their curvedneedled, frail-powered, unrelia-
ble-tensOned, low-spee led or rayel-stltched ma
chine tor a Singer Ner family Machine
Various eXpedients are resorted to, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the Singer for the pur-
pose of Introducing inferior machines-viz, The
Button-ilole Dodge" The OverSeamng," The
Double ock knot-Stitch ." Elastic Stitch 'oTwst-
ed LOOP, ~eli-Adjustng Tensions y" High Finish
and Beautifully Ornrmented,' "Strught Needle"
"Stitch-A iikc-on-both-si Sides y Medals from Fairs
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lent Feed, aud last and worst of all the low -priced
Family Shuttle Machines"
Many of these points are desirable, (and the
Singer eXccli9 all in each individual speciality but
the greatest made of these special points, is by
the retail agent who parades them before the mex.
perencei purchaser with such fluent and earnest
style, to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings of the case. While other nno-
cent local agents ignoranty represent that the ma
chine sold by them is capable of doing every yare
ty of work, equol to the Singer, and often do they
thus unconscously swindle customers who cannot
afford to squander their substance upon gded
fulles and worthless ratte-traps.
Parties in quest of a sewing Machine should look
about them aud learn hat hne Is most extern
eivcy used IN families tailor shops, shoe factories,
and carriage factories. II is an acknowledged fttcf,
Jrcejy unlimited BY all setc,ng aachine denfTs that
more than tro-fhirds Of al the c0thinJ ~orn IN tbs
country by both sores, Uheter custom AGe or reddy
B3dde. Il dctltGiy manufactured upon TIE SINGER
SEWING MACHINE.
These Machines are manufactured by one Of the
Oldest, strongest, and most cntcFprfsfng 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
employed Newly improved machinery is en-
ployed turning out each part finished to that me
chanica exactness that every one is Il perfect du-
new inventions are carefully examined and tested,
and if approved, adopted, regardless Of eX-
pense, while the many impractical hnmbugs that
are patented are lef 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-
mernbcred that tie singer Manufacturing Com
pany has never made a poor Machine-from the
very first twenty-odd years ago. They never buy
editorial notices. or eXpend funds in log rollingn
at Fairs to gain medals or premiums.
They simply make their Machines as valuable as
money and science can perfect them-pace them
in their sales Rooms, and leave the public to find
ut their yrtue in their own way. BY this straight
forward course they are now manufacturing about
four hundred per day, and at that rate, even, are
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