For years local historians and newspaper columnists (I'm pointing at myself) have had some laughs at the expense of Deacon Elias Howe, the man credited with the founding of Salinas. But the story ...

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ELIAS HOWE, Jr., the inventor of the sewing-machine, died at his residence in Brooklyn on Thursday night in his forty-eighth year.

John Niles of St. Johns County, Florida, shares his favorite vintage sewing machines: Five Singers and one wild card.

During the pandemic, John Niles began fixing old sewing machines. Some may soon be going to Africa as part of an aid project by Catholic laypeople.

It remained for Elias Howe to make and patent, in 1845, the first successful lock-stitch machine, in which an eye-pointed needle and an independent shuttle, each with its own thread, were used.

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