Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-08-18

The famous success of the SINGER MANUFACTURE
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other compan-
les to put forth all their energies and talents TO
produce il sewing machine that would eclipse or
equal the Singer, but in every case they have sig
nally lailed is plainly shown by the fact that OF
all the travelling agents-"runners or drummer"
of other companies, none have the assurance to
lain 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 asst ,ttnce to the housewife and the industr
Gus eeanetIess. Parties purCh ing Il sewing ma
chine of any sort, ind the Improvement ON the od
fashioned way. of sewing by hand so great ana
pleasing, thai they naturally, but enormously,
led to b, leye that they have the best, until the spell
is broken by the introduction OF the Singer q 1870
into neiehbor's family, which Is sure, by The IN
creased rapdy and ease with which II does every
kind of plain or fancy sewing, To awaken them to a
positive although it may be silent acknowledge
nent of the painful truth that there are very many
varieties of work that easily executed upon the
singer, but that they must either be content TO 40
without, or exchange q heavy pecunlaiy sacri'
fee, their curved necdleG raIpuWered, unrea-
ble-tensionetl, low-spccded or ravel-stched ma
chine Tor Singer Ae'c Family Mtchine
Various eXpedcHts are resorted To, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the SINGER Tor lhe Enr,
pose of introducing inferior machlnes-viz, The
Button-Hoe Dodge" The over'SeamnS" 'Ihe
Double Loc -knot->titch Elastic stitch, Twist
ed Loop" Seii-Adjustng Tensions, Ting FINISH
and Beautifully Ornamented," straight Needle y
"Stitch- h-Alikc.on-both-oides Medals from Fairs /"
vertical Feed Bars .Noiseles Running" silent
Feed" and last and worst Of al, the lOW-priced-
"Family shuttle Machines"
Singer excel, Ill in each individual speciality but
the greatest use made of these special POINTS Il by
the retail agent who naradIs them before the mex
periencVd purchaser with such fluent ana earnest
style to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings of the case While other inno-
cent local agents ignOrantly represent that the ma
chine sold by them Ii capable ul DONG every varie-
ty of work. equal TO the Singer, and often do they
i'm. unron,rlouslv swindle customers who cannot
aflo,d to squander their substance upon Gllded
follies al. d worthless rattle-traps
Parties in quest of a Sew ing Machine should look
about them and learn what machine Is most extern
sively u7ed i'll families, tailor shops, shoe factories
and carriage factories. II is acknowledged fact
lreeiu admitted by all seiCIng machine dealers, that
more than tro-htrdS Of all the clothing ToTh IN this
c0untru on 10th Seres rhcther custom made reddg
made Is actually manufactured upon The SINGER
SEWING MACHINE.
These Machines are manufactured by one of the
oldest, strongest, and most enterprlslng Compan-
les that has ever been engaged in the business IN
the world Throughout tnelr immense manutac-
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 hnIshed To that me
plicate of the other in SIZE weight and fms All
new inventions carefully examined and tested,
and il approved, are adopted, regardless OF eX-
pense. while the many impractical humbugs that
are patented, are lett 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-
membered that the Singer Manufacturing Com
pany has never made a poor Machlne-from the
| very first twenty-odd years ago. They never buy
editorial notices, or eXpend funds in 'log-rollng"
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 find
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