The Placer herald., 1871-01-28

AE a l. IL II FL GREAI CURlOSI1 IS
~ which attracted the most attention at the
Mechanics Fair are the wonderful improve
ments which are now attached to the well-known
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINE,
without the completion Of the others. This is
the only Family Sewing Machine with the new
Silent Feed Motion. 1t makes one thousand
button holes per day, on linen cotton or wooden
goods. 1t sews on the binding of dress with
out previous basting, in four minutes; and while
sewing on one tuck, makes the line of marks for
another; gathers and sews on ut the same time:
hens silk wooden goods with equal facility:
cords and braids with surprising quickness;
makes articles for mems ms well as women s
wear; takes two thousand stitches per minute
which is fifteen hundred stitches more than any
other lock stitch can make.
This wonderful machine has no shuttle to
thread five six times before starting, which is
a great saving of time. 1t is a positive fact that
WHEELER e. WILSON'S FAMILY SEWING
MACHINES will do all the same kind of work
that the other machines now sale will do
will make the same Single thread loop-stitch that
ravels ont very conveniently because you can
sew with one yard of thread all day long, sew
ing it in again and so on-all right, and very
convenient; but you will find that the same
WHEELER & WILSON FAMILY SEWING
MACHINE that does all these wonderful things
makes also the only straight, solid lock-stitch
which cannot be raveled; perfectly safe to walk
also this machine will make the three thread en-
brodery stitch, which is the loop-stitch and lock
stitch combined The AMERICAN INSTITUTE of
New York, reports. "This machine makes the
LOCK STITCH.
and ranks highest on account of the elasticity,
permanence, beauty and general desirableness of
application.
This report was in accordance with the preyi-
ous-the stitching when done, and the wide
range of its awards at the fair of the United
States Agricultural Society at the Fairs of the
American Institute, New York;
Mechanics Association Boston:
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia;
Kentucky Institute Baltimore:
Mechanics Association, Cincinnati
Mechanics Association, st. Louis:
Mechanics Institute, San Francisco:
metropolitan Mechanics Inst, Washington
All THE STATE FAIRS OF
Maine, Virginia, Tennessee,
Vermont Mississippi, Illinois.
Connecticut, Missouri, Kentucky,
New York, Ohio Michigan
New Jersey, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Pennsylvania, California
Andat hundreds of County Fairs
The battle-fieds of Napoleon |. were scarcely
more numerous than the foreign contests of the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines. Paris, in
1861, London, 1862, Linz and Kaingburg. 1868,
Dantze, Agram and Krema, 1864, and Dublin,
Stcttin, Cologne and Wicmar 1865, bear testi-
mony to the superiority of the Machine and its
appreciation abroad. At all these international
Exhibitions the best fruits of foreign genius
were arrayed against it, backed by natona!
o'no'r prOPrc; but there as here the star Of its
destiny is always in the ascendant.
We can now supply our customers with Stod-
dard's Patent Tuck Maker for the Wheeler &
Wilson Machine only, and one of the most use
full attachments for the Machine ever invented.
which. while the Machine is sewing one tuck,
makes the line of marks fer the next
Y This Tuck Maker was awarded the FIRST
PRFMGuM at the great State Fair held in Sacra-
mtnto, 1867, over All competitors.
These Machines IRE specially adapted for the
use of farmers being able to sew grain sacks and
heavy clothing with the same facility rs the usu-
at family work-malling a more durable seam
not liable to rayel, as is the case of the loop OF
chain stitch
w. IN. SToDDARD,
Agent for the Pacific Coast.
Office, No. f35, Montgomery St
SAN FRANCISCO.
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