Historic Prices: 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, Ruckstuhls, 225.00-275.00/each
  • Post card album, .39-1.50/each
  • Rifle, 13 shot Vetterlin 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
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