Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — HOUSEHOLD TREASURE. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD TREASURE.

Growing Popularity of the Oxford Sewing Machines. There Is nothing more truly a household treasure than a good sewing machine To be without it Is to be willfully deprived of the immense advantage of one of the greatest of all inventions A machine once bought la a perpetual treasure. It demands no wages, occasions no expense or trouble and Is always ready without a moment's notice to render the work of the laborious housewife tenfold more eSclent and expeditious. Some machines combine the best Ideas and suggestions which have been so abundantly introduced in thia remarkable mechanism. A machine which exhibits In liberal combination all the beat features Introduced is the Oxford Improved Sewing Machine, made by the Oxford Manufacturing Company, Chicago, description and cut of which can bo seen in the advertising columns of tbli paper. They make high and low arm raathlnea with lock-stitch shuttle, running light and quiet These machines have the following important feattures: Cheapness (ranging from 110.60 upward)) perfect, almost self-adjusting and graduated tension; are under control of the operator, and are always positive in their working. They are entirely selfthreudlug (n ail polnts. Including the shuttle. The needle b self-spiting, and the attachment* are qtllekJy and easily placed and fastened. ThM Shuttle has an easy oaclllatlQg. motion. eaußing It to keep Its proper place against rhe race. Their Oxford, Home and Columbia Machines, with attachments, aerp awarded the medal premium at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chlcayx' ' V ' -