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Reading Notices. 



A. ait.WD ML^DATj rOK CI.EVlJT.AyD. 

 The WilHon Sewiny Machine Tahes the Grund I^rise at Viettitn. 



Three separate dispatches from Vienna combine to d'spel all doubt as to what 

 sewing machine has won the first honors of the great Exposition. The first was a 

 special to the New York press on Monday, and was us follows : 



Vienna, August 15, 1873. 

 The Wilson shuttle sewing machine was awarded the grand prize at the Vienna 

 Exposition for being the best sewing machine. 



The second was the regular Associated Press report, compiled from a long special 

 to the New York Herald, in which the " Wilson Sewing-Machine of Cleveland, 

 Ohio," was named as among the exhibitors which received " medals for merit," the 

 highest class of premiums awarded at the Exposition. All other sew Lng-machines 

 will receive simply an azcard fur progress. 



The third was a private cable telegram received yesterday from Vienna by Mr. 

 Wilson himself, which was as follows : 



Vienna, August 19. 



You have received Jive medals — tivo fur merit and three co-operative. 



The meaning of this is that the Wilson machine has received the grand medal as 

 the best sewing- in achhie, and a second medal as the machine best manufactured — that 

 is, embodying the best mechanical workmanship. Besides these, Mr. GreorgeW. 

 Baker, Assistant Superintendent of the Wilson Sewing machine Company, receives 

 a special medal for excellence of workmanship on the machine ; Mr. Williams of this 

 city receives a medal for the best sewing on leather, done by the Wilson ; and Miss 

 Brock and Miss De Lussey receive still another medal for best samples of family 

 sewing and embroidery, done en the Wilson machine. This sweeps the entire board. 

 Not only has the Wilson sewing machine been pronounced the most capable and effi- 

 cient sewing machine in the world, but its work, on both dry goods and leather, is 

 pronounced superior to that of all other machines. This verdict at a World's Fair, 

 where all the leading sewing machines of both continents have competed before a 

 thorou<»hly competent committee for more than three months, is the most complete 

 triumph ever won by a sewing machine. We congratulate Mr. Wilson, we congratu- 

 late Cleveland on this admirable result. The people of the United States can hence- 

 forth be assured that in buying the Wilson machine for S20 less than any other first 

 class sewing machine is offered, they are purchasing the best sewing machine ever 

 offered to the public. It is the people's own machine, made to do the people's work, 

 and offered at a price which every one can afford to pay. It is the people's machine 

 which has won this triumph; the judgment of the Vienna Committee only confirms 

 the verdict that the masses had long ago reached by actual experience. — Cleveland 

 Daily Leader, August 20. 



Jioyus Vienna J'remiuins. 



As we have taken all of the grand medals awarded to sewing machines and 

 work done on sewing machines at the Vienna Exposition, which fact has been an- 

 nounced in the newspapers by Associated Press telegrams {over which we have had 

 no control), and consequently is unquestionable evidence, we deem it due to ourselves 

 to caution the public against the bogus claims and paid advertisements of our van- 

 quished competitors. 



Wilson Sewing Machine Company. 



Cleveland, 0., August 18, 1873. 



