The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-28
Sewing Machine Sales for 10
TIL SINGER
Still Triumphant!


her, S6,7Sl Machines, bnt we sold last year
IIs70l l27, 1873 machines showing an excess
beyond the sales of ] s69. of over forty thousand
and as shown by the table below, over "A 900
machines more than any other company.
The reader may naturally ask whether this
is nero Boosting, in answer to which we have
TO say, that those figures, and the ones given
below are from sworn returns made by licensees
to the receiver appointed by the owners Of the
NEST valuable sewing machine patents who Ii
cense the companies of lesser importance.
In 1870 we sold over tho
Parham Sewing Machine Co., 1875 O67 Machines
tihkl9 d Lyon Mauuf'g Co., l25,4lS
Empire Sewing Machine CO., l24273
Etna Sewing Machine Co., l22,027 "
Gold Medal Sew. Mach. Co., llS,92l
A II ercan Button Hole Co., 1920
Florence Sewing Mach' Co., llO,l73
Wilcox & Gil BIS Sew. Ma. Co. % ,9i3
Weed Sewing Machine Co., 92,S3l
Grover q Baker S. Ma. Co., 7O,43l
Howe Machine Co., 52617
Wheerer & Wilson Mfg 20. 1925
From the above figures it will be seen that
our rivals in trade are far behind MS, that the
popularity of what is known as our NEW
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE is steadily and
LARGELY decreasing. We are not so vain as to
suppose that these large sales are due To supe-
rior business clpacitv so much as TO the merits
Of orr machines, as well as the observation OF
those who buy and use, and are personally in
.erested in comparing the merits of the differ
ent machines before making selection.
Few have denied in fact it has been the hab-
it of sewing machine dealers, till recently, to
speak in laudatou of our manufi curing ma
chimes, but in the same breath 10 c-oy the
merits Of our machine for family sewing. II
was usual TO say 10 lady looking for Il sew
ing machine, " If, madam, you want manu-
featuring machine, the Singer is the best" as
if We made but one kind of machine only, and
had no Family sewing machine at all, though
our .Nec Family" was our greatest triumph,
and even then the favorite, ever ready and
never wearying seamstress of many well reg
ulated household Our machine, however, told
as own story in the great range and variety OF
excellent and beautiful family sewing which il
is capable of doing. and the sales show that its
story was not entirely disbelieved or we would
not have sold last year 127 ,333 machines, being
moro than twice as many machines as there are
words in the English language, and all this has
been accomplished with little aid from exhibit
lions and fairs, excepting only the worlds fair
constituted by the homes of the people
where we received the great award of the high
est sales.
The Folding Gases and Attachments for
Hemming. Fellug, Braiding,
Gathering. COrding, Trimming,
Binding, Tucking, Embroid, ring
aud so forth, are not only numerous, but now
brought to great perfection. Most of them can
be attached or detached Oy simple move OF
the hand. The quality of The work can only
be fully appreciated on observation and exam
nation. SINGER MANUFACTURING co.
No. 45S Broa way, New York.
BzSs~ Any person having a machine that runs
hard eau have it attended to by letting me know
y. GODFREY.
s3Sly Agent for Van Buren, Co., Paw Paw