1909
Automobiles
New None advertised Used several advertised, no prices
Clothing
- Boy's knickerbocker pants, .39-.98/each
- Boy's shirt, .23-.45/each
- Boy's shoes, 1.00-2.50/pair
- Boy's suit, 1.45-4.00/each
- Girl's dress, gingham, .49/each
- Girl's hat, felt, .49/each
- Girl's shoes, 1.50-2.00/pair
- Men's hat, .89-2.45/each
- Men's shirt, .45-.95/each
- Men's shoes, 2.00-2.50/pair
- Men's suit, fall, 5.50-22.50/each
- Men's trousers, 1.00-3.50/pair
- Women's blouse, .29-3.98/each
- Women's coat, fall, 5.98-9.98/each
- Women's hat, 4.95-9.00/each
- Women's house dress, .89-1.79/each
- Women's skirt, 5.98/each
- Women's suit, 19.00-79.00/each
- Women's sweater, .98-5.98/each
Employment
- Girl for general housework, 18.00-20.00/week
- Ironers (clothes pressing), 15.00/week
Food & beverages
- Apples, .15/6 quart basket
- Baked beans, White Rose, .25/two no. 3 cans
- Beef, Sirloin steak, .16/lb
- Butter, fancy creamery, .39/lb
- Chicken, roasting. .22/lb
- Cocoa, Lowney's, .17/2 lb tin
- Coffee, Best Maracaibo, .20/lb
- Corn, Sultana, .08/can
- Crackers, National Biscuit Company, Uneeda, .10/3 pkgs
- Eggs, .26/dozen
- Fish sardines, .03/can
- Flour, 1.75/49 lb sack
- Ham, Swift's, sugar cured, .14/lb
- Ice cream, .10/pint; .35/quart; .45/Neapolitan brick quart
- Ketchup, Pride of the Farm, 1.00/bottle
- Lamb, leg, .16/lb
- Lemons, .10/dozen
- Macaroni, .10/pkg
- Milk, condensed, .25/3 cans
- Mustard, Colman's, .10/pkg
- Peanut butter, .11/lb
- Potatoes, white or sweet, .10/6 quart basket
- Raisins, A & P, fancy, .07/pkg
- Rice, Japan, .05/lb
- Salt, .07/pkg
- Soup, Campbell's, .25/3 cans
- Tea, 1.00/2 lbs
- Worcestershire sauce, Lea & Perrins, .19/bottle
Household & seasonal goods
- Baby crib, 2.98-4.75/each
- Bed, brass, 15.00-25.00/each
- Bed spread, white crochet, full size, .98-1.39/each
- Blanket, wool, 3.98-5.98/each
- Carpet sweeper, Puritan, 1.65/each
- Cleanser, Dutch, .07/pkg
- Coal, 5.25-6.75/ton
- Dinnerware, fine Austrian China, 100 piece set, 14.00/set
- Flower pot, up to 12", .02-.35/each
- Laundry detergent, Grandma's Washing Powder, .15/pkg
- Linoleum, .35-1.50/square yard
- Mason jars, quart size, .48/dozen
- Muffin tins, Turk's Head, 12 cups, .29/each
- Range, Ben Hur, 18.50/each
- Refrigerator, 24 1/2" wide, 16 1/2 " deep, 39" high, 6.00/each
- Rocking chair, oak, 3.95-6.98/each
- Rug, Oriental, 1.00/square foot
- Sheets, 68" X 90", .42-.55/each
- Table, folding, 36", .49-1.50/each
- Tea pot, enamel, 3 & 4 quart size, .29/each
Newspaper
.01/each
Personal care & health
- Beecham's Pills (for weak stomach nerves), .10-.25/bottle
- Book, Family Doctor/Dr. Pierce, 1.30/each
- Cough syrup, Jayne's Expectorant, .25-1.00/bottle
- Hair curlers, "Magic," .07/2
- Hair pins, large size, .07/250 count pkg
- Hair wavers, "Magic Marcel," .18/5
- Shoe shine, .05/person
- Toilet paper, .05/2 rolls
Real estate
Houses for sale None advertised Houses for rent None advertised Apartments & rooms
- Morristown, 3 rooms, 15.00/month
- Morristown, 5 rooms, 25.00/month
- Morristown, 6 rooms, 28.00/month
Recreation & amusements
- Clam bake, Morristown Heights, Labor Day, 1.00/ticket
- Piano, Ruckstuhl, 225.00-275.00/each
- Post card album, .39-1.50/each
- Rifle, 13 shot Vetterli Magazine, 40.00/each
- Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, [Morristown, NJ], .50-1.00/ticket
- Train fare, New York-Chicago, 27.00/round trip
School supplies
School cases (bookbags), .79-1.05/each