Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-23
These Machines, by their simplicity, durability
and the great range Of work they execute,
have gained reputation truly
HnIialln-


have gained . reputation truly
enviable.
The famous success of the SINGER MANUFACTUR
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other COM
panies 10 put forth all their energies and talents
produce sewing machine that would eclipse or
equal the singer, but in every they have sig
naiy iaiied is plainly shown by the fact, that of
all the travelling agtnts-"runngIs or drummers"
oil other companies none nave the assurance to
claim more than equality itl 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 OF
much assistance to the housewife and the ipdustri
scamstress. Parties purchasing a sewing ma
chine of dRy sort, find the Improvement the old
fashioned way of sewing by hand so great aud
pleasing; that they are naturally, but enormously,
led to believe that they have the best until the spel
Is broken by the Introduction of tie Singer Of 1870
into neighbours family, which is sure, by the ill.,
creased rapidity and ease with which it does every
kind of plain or fancy sewing, toawaken them to II
positive, although it may be silent acknowledge
ment, of the painful truth that there very many
varieties OF Work that arc easiIy executed upon the
Singer, but that they must either be content to do
without, or exchange, at Il heavy pecuniaIy sacri-
flee, their curveti-needled, irai!-poWcred, Unrelia
be-ten stoned low-speeded ravel-stitched ma.
chine for Singer Neie Family Machine;
Various evpedents resorted to- that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the singer for the pur.
pose Of introducing inferior machnes-vz, THE
Batton-H Hole DODGE The Ovcr-Seaminpp aThe
Double ck- Knot Stitch Elastic stitch, p Twist
ed Loop, Sell Adjusting Tensi y" High Finish
and beautifully Olnrmented," "stiught Neee,n
stitch Alike-on-boths sides /" Medals from Fairs,n
Vertical Feed Barsn ''Noiseless Running" "si.
lent Feed" and last and worst of all the low-prced
Many of these points are desirable. (and the
Singer eXcells all in each Individual speciality but
tire greatest made of these special points is by
the retail agent who parades them before the mex
perencod purchaser with such fluent and earnest
style, to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings Of the caee. While other inno
cent local agents gnorantly represent that the ma
chine sold by them Is capable of doing every varie
ty of work e,uGl to the Singer and often do they
thus unconsciously 7windie customers who cannot
afford to squanGer their substance upon gilded
follies aid worthless rattle-traps,
Parties i'll quest of Sewing Machine should look
| about them and learn what machine is most extern
sively used III families, tailor shops, shoe factories,
and carriage factories. II is acknowledged fact
'reeiy Gdmitted dy alt seiclRQ machine deters, Hat
country By BOTH seres pAeter custom made ready
made, IS actually manufactured upon TIE StNGER
| SEWING MACHINE.
| These Machines are manufactured by one of tie
Oldest strongest and most ebteI pri,ing Compan-
ie~ 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 Ii ghly skilled mechanics are
employed. Newly improved machinery is en-
| pluyed turning ont each ptgt finished to that me-
chaucai e%aCtneSs that every one is perfect du-
liicdte OF the other in SIZE, weight and finish All
new inventions are carefully examined and tested,
| and II approved, are adopted. regardless of ex-
| pen-e, while the many Impractical humbugs that
| are patented, are LEFT to grace wonder
and learn the purchaser when too late that he has
| paid too dear for his whistle" II should be re.
membered that tive Singer Manufacturing Com
| pany has never made - poor Machine-irom the
very ifet twenty odd years ago. They never buy
editorial notices, OF eNpend funds III "log-rollng
| az Fairs to gain medals premiums.
| They simply make their Machine as valuable as
| money and science can perfect thCm-place them
| in their sales Rooms, 9nd leave the public to find
out their virtues in their own way Ky this straight
| forward course they ara now manufacturing about
four hundred per day, and at that rate, even are
unable to supply the demand,