Historic Prices: 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
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