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The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
Wheeler &Wilson'ssewing Machines
have won the highest premiums at the fair of the U. S. Agricultural Society, and at the State Fairs of--
Maine,
Vermont,
Connec't,
N. York,
Pennsylvania,
Tennessee,
Virginia,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Ohio,
Indiana,
Hlinois,
Kentucky,
Michigan,
Wiscon'n,
Ca xamining Committee.
(The committee were all thorough machinists, and made a careful examination of the machines submitted to their inspection:)
"No. 1.
The Wheeler &Wilson Machine makes what is popularly called the lock stitch, and in view of the economy of thread required for said stitch, its elasticity, strength, and beaut g in a freedom from derangement and need for repairs, with an ease of adjustment not attained in the more complicated contrivances.
In our examination we find in Wheeler &Wilson's Machines these advantages over all others.
1st.
Its bearing surfaces and parts having a reciprocating motion, are very light, and the more rapid motio