1918

Automobiles

New
  • Chandler 6, 7 passenger touring, 1,795.00
  • Chandler, convertible coup, 2,395.00
  • Chandler, limousine, 3,095.00
Used
  • 1917, Overland, 5 passenger touring, 450.00
  • Hudson, Laundlette, (no year), 750.00
  • Hupmobile, Runabout (no year), 125.00

Clothing

  • Bathing cap, .25-1.00/each
  • Boy's suit, 3.80-6.00/each
  • Children's shoes, play Oxfords and sandals, .69-1.98/pair
  • Girl's dress, chambray, 2.95/each
  • Men's hat, Panama style, 4.45/each
  • Men's necktie, silk, .38-.75/each
  • Men's shirt, 1.70/3 shirts
  • Men's suit, Palm Beach, 10.00-15.00/each
  • Men's union suit, .69/each
  • Men's trousers, white and flannel, 4.50-8.00/pair
  • Swimming shoes, .85-1.50/pair
  • Women's bathing suit, 5.98/each
  • Women's coat, linen, 3.75-6.75/each
  • Women's dress, silk, 9.98/each
  • Women's shoes, 5.50-8.50/pair
  • Women's skirt, linen, 1.98/each
  • Women's suit, summer, 9.98-22.98/each
  • Women's vest, .29-.33/each

Employment

Girls to work at soda fountain, 15.00/week

Food & beverages

  • Bacon, boneless, .40/lb
  • Baking powder, Red Star, .18/lb tin
  • Beef, prime rib roast, .29/lb
  • Beets, fresh, .05/bunch
  • Butter, Elgin Creamery, .49/lb
  • Cocoa, .38/lb can
  • Coffee, Finest Bogata, .85/3 lbs
  • Crackers, National Biscuit Company, Uneeda, .07/pkg
  • Ham, Swift's sugar cured Cali, .24/lb
  • Juice, Armour's, grape, .38/quart bottle
  • Lemons, Fancy, .35/dozen
  • Lettuce, .10/head
  • Margarine, Spreadit, .30/lb
  • Milk, Lion, condensed, .20/2 cans
  • Onions, fancy yellow, .33/6 lbs
  • Oranges, .45/dozen
  • Potatoes, 1.05/27 lb basket
  • Raisins, .19/jar
  • Root beer extract, Hires, .15/bottle
  • Salt, table, .08/large box
  • Tea, English breakfast, .40/pkg
  • Tomatoes, fresh Jersey, .10/quart

Household

  • Carpet sweeper, Bissell, 3.25-5.00/each
  • Coffee mill, glass, .79/each
  • Congoleum (flooring), .65/square yard
  • Fly paper, Tanglefoot, .09/6 double sheets
  • Mason jars, .85/pint; .90/quart
  • Paint, outdoor house, 2.25-4.00/gallon
  • Refrigerator, 14.00-24.00/each
  • Screen door, 2.00-3.00/each
  • Vacuum sweeper, Bissell, 5.00-10.50/each

Lawn & garden

  • Bench, garden, 1.35/each
  • Cabbage plants, 2.00/1,000 plants
  • Celery plants, 2.00/1,000 plants
  • Hammock, rope, 1.50-8.00/each
  • Tomato plants, 2.00/1,000 plants

Newspaper

.02/daily paper

Personal care & health

  • Indigestion pills, Bell-Ans, .25/bottle
  • Powder, Sykes, 25/container
  • Shoe polish, Bixby, .10/container
  • Tonic, Leibig's, .25/two bottles

Real estate

Houses for sale Morristown, 12 rooms, 10 acres, 7,500.00 Houses for rent
  • Morristown, 6 rooms, 24.00/month
  • Morristown, 4 rooms, 13.00/month
Apartments & rooms
  • Morristown, 3 rooms, 10.00/month
  • Morristown, 4 rooms, 13.00/month
  • YMCA, single room, 2.50/week

Recreation & amusements

  • Chicken supper, Monroe Union Chapel, .50/person
  • Firecrackers, .05 & .10/each
  • Pool table, 28.00/each
  • Suitcase, 2.49-3.49/each
  • Theatre, Lyons Theatre, .15, .20 & .30/ticket
  • Trunks (large suitcases), 5.00+/each
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