1902
Automobiles
Waverly Electric Vehicles (no price)
NOTE: The first Daily Record advertisements for automobiles that included prices appeared June 3, 1903 (p. 1):
- Steam Mobile Trap, seats 4, new 550.00
- Waverly Electric Runabout 350.00
- Hoffman Light Touring Car 975.00
Beverages
- Coffee, Maracaibo .21/lb
- Mineral water, Saratoga .15/bottle
Clothing
- Boys sailor suit, reg. 4.00, sale 2.98/each
- Children's suit, 1.25-5.20/each
- Hats .85-1.50
- Men's extra fine business suits 3.50/each
- Men's silk lined overcoat 9.75/each
- Ladies patent oxfords (shoes) 2.50/pair
- Ladies walking skirt, 3.50/each
- Ladies silk waist (blouse) 4.85/each
- Ladies suits, 4.48/each
- Ladies ties, with pin .17/each
- Women's house dress .80/each
Employment
Carpenters, 2.75/day
Food
- Beans, baked, White Rose, .25/3 cans
- Butter, .27/lb
- Catsup, Waverly, .13/bottle
- Cookies, ginger snaps, .05/lb
- Eggs, .75/13
- Fish, cod steak, .11/lb
- Fish, striped bass, .15/lb
- Ham, fancy sugar-cured, .14/lb
- Ice cream, .30/quart
- Ice cream-Neapolitan, .35/brick
- Pancake mix, H-O, .10/package
- Preserves, Aunt Phebe's .23/jar
Furniture
- Bed, enameled iron, 2.75
- Chairs, dining, .65/each
- Chairs, porch, 2.49
- Mattress, full size , 2.75
Garden equipment
- Hose, rubber, .09-.12/each
- Lawn mowers, 2.25-3.00
- Rake, .10-.25/each
- Wheelbarrow, 1.45/each
Household goods
- Borax, .15/four 4 oz packages
- Bread knife, .10/each
- Coal, Scranton pea (size), 4.00/ton
- Coffee pot, enamel, .30
- Dishes, glass, .05/each
- Egg beater, .10/each
- Paints, ready mixed indoor, .08/can
- Refrigerator, Jewett dry air, 7.49-19.98
- Table linen, damask, .39-.79/yard
- Tea kettle, nickel, .85
- Tumblers [glasses], glass .36-.70/dozen
Personal care & health
- Bochee's German Syrup, .75/bottle
- Comb, pocket, .10/each
- Nau's Dyspepsia Cure, 1.00/bottle
- Toilet paper, .25/6 packages
- Tooth brush, .10/each
- Toothpicks, .05/pack
- Vaseline, .05/jar
Newspapers
- Daily Record, .01/weekday paper
- Classified advertisements, .01/word
Professional Services
Landscaping service, 2.50/day, less than 5 hours
Real estate
- Property, Washington Twp. 4,000.00
- Tracts, Hanover Twp. 3,000.00
- Tract, Morristown 25,000.00
- Tract, Roxbury 13,200.00
- House for rent, 8 rooms 12.50/month
- House for rent, 5 rooms 10.00/month
- Floor to let, Ann St., Morristown 8.00/month
NOTE: No advertisements for house sales appeared in these papers. A single column headed "Real Estate Transfers Recorded in the County Clerk's Office" was published; property descriptions were not provided. Tracts and properties sold may have included houses and other buildings.
Recreation & amusements
- Baseball, .10/each
- Black Kang'r baseball shoes, 3.00/pair
- Children's sand pails & shovels, .10/set
- Croquet set, .89-2.98/each
- Dance at the Maxwell Social Club, .25/ticket
- Dominoes, .10/set
- Fishing rod set, .10/each
- Leon Washburn's All New Combined Shows, .25/adult, .10/children under 12
- Playing cards, .10/deck
- Tennis shoes, 1.50/pair