Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-20
IMPORTANT FACTS !
For the Public.
NEW EASTERN DEPOT
FOR THE WORLD RENOWNED
. I III q Il r.
SEWING MACHINES.
Opposite the Post Office,
AUGUSTA, MAINE.



have gained reputation truly
enVlable.
The famous success OF the SINGER MANUFACTUR-
ING COMPANY has stimulated many other com
panies 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
naIly tailed, is plainly shown by tue fact, that of
all the travelling agcnts-"i1tnner, or drummers"
of other companies. none have the a surance to
ciaim 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 ndustr
ous 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 naturally, but enormously,
led TO believe that they have the hest until the spell
il broken bv the introduction of tie Singer Of 1870
into a ueighbor's family, which is sure. hy the in
creased rupdity and ease with which it does every
kind of plain or fancy sewing, toawaken them to a
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 do
without, or exchange, at heavy pecunlaly sacr-
flee, their curyed-needled, frail.powered, unrelia-
ble-tensione,!, low,.peeded or raycl-stitched MT
chine for Singer New Fdmdg Huchiae.
Various eNpPdients are orted to, that the pub
lie eye may be turned from the singer for the pur-
pose of introducing inferior machines-yi1 The
Button Hole Dodge" The Overs Scanning" The
Double Lock Knot Stitch, y" Elastic stitch Twist
ed Loop" SELF. ting Tensions" High Finish
and Beautifully OTnlmented," "Strurht Needle"
Stitch e-on- both. sides" Medals from Fairs"
Vertical Feed Bars" sNoiseless Running" Isl.
lent Feed and last and worst Of all the lOW-priced
Family shuttle Machines"
Many Of these points are desirable, (and the
Singer eXcCliS all in each individual speeialIty) but
the greatest made of these special points, Is by
the retail agent who paradeo them before the mex
perencei purchaser with such fluent and earnest
style, to entirely divert attention from the really
important bearings OF the case. Will" other inno-
cent local agents ignorantlY repre- ent that the ma
chine sold by tlem is capable of doing every varie
ty of work. ejU0i 10 the Singer and often ito they
thus uncouecouely .windle customer, who cannot
afford to suuander their substance upon gllded
follies and worthless ratte-trai'e.
Parties in quest of sewing Machine should look
about them and learn what machine Is most extern
eiyely used in families tailor shops, shoe factories,
and carriage factories. ~ is an ocIhooridged fd"t
Irteiy admttea By alt Setrthq machtBe "edtef% mt
more than tcO-thi,dS al al the cothiHg lcofn IN tts
countrB IN both ,gheter custom fa051e ready
made, is actually maaaydctured upon TIE SINGER
SEWING MACHINE.
These Machines are manufactured by one of the
oldest strongest, and most enteriri~Iig Compan-
les that has ever been engaged III the business IN
the world. Throughout their immense manutac-
and night" none but b Elily skilled mechanics are
employed. Newly improved machinery i en-
poyed turning out each part finished to that me-
chanical eXactness that every one Is n perfect du
pcate of the other in slzc. weight and finish. All
new inventions are carefully examined and tested
and if approved, adopted, regardless Of cN-
pensc, vhiie the many impractical hUlnbugs 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" it should he re-
membered that the Singer Manufacturing tom
pany has never made a poor Machine-irom the
very first twenty-odd years ago. They never buy
editorial notices or cNpcnd funds in l"g-rollins2
at Fairs 10 gain medal on premiums.
They SIMPLY make their Machines he valuable as
money and science can perfect thtm-ll lace them
in their Sales Rooms. and leave ihe iubllc To find
out their virtues in their own way. BY thi> straight
forward course they ar" row manufacturing about
-four hundred per day, and at that rate, even, are
unable To supply He tciuaf.u.