Historic Prices: 1920

Automobiles

New

• Chandler, touring, 1,895.00
• Cleveland Six, touring, 1,435.00
• Overland, touring, 1,035.00

Used

• Cadillac "8", 1917, passenger touring car, 1,600.00
• Chandler, model 17 touring, 650.00
• Dodge, touring, 775.00

Clothing

• Boy's golf hats, 1.25-3.50/each
• Boy's knee pants, 1.59/pair
• Boy's suit, 15.00/each
• Children's pajamas, Dr. Denton's, 1.00-1.45/each
• Girl's dress, navy blue wool serge, braid trimmed, 12.75/each
• Men's hat, felt, 3.85/each
• Men's overcoat, 12.50/each
• Men's shirt, chambray work shirt, 1.50/each
• Men's shoes, work style, 2.95/pair
• Men's suit, Style Plus Value First Fall Suits, 40.00-60.00/each
• Sweater, 3.95-12.50/each
• Women's coat, 37.50/each
• Women's blouse, 3.95-17.50/each
• Women's dress, flannel, 2.50-3.50/each
• Women's petticoat, 1.19/each
• Women's skirt, 1.19-1.75/each

Employment & services

• Bricklayers, 1.25/hour
• Laborers, 5.50/8 hour day
• Laundress, 3.00/day
• Men's suits pressed, .50/each
• Shoe repair, men's sole & leather heel, 1.65/pair
• Telephone operator, 14.00/week
• Tutoring, 2.00/hour

Food & beverages

• Bacon, Dixie Style, .29/lb
• Beans, baked with tomato sauce, 12.5 cents/can
• Beef, Libby's, corned, .29/lb can
• Chewing gum, Wrigley's Doublemint, .05/pack
• Chicken, liver, 1.00/each
• Coffee, Mota, .27/lb
• Corn, sugar, 1.00/7 cans
• Crackers, NCB, Uneeda, .05/pkg
• Cream, evaporated, 1.00/8 cans
• Fish, Columbia River Salmon, .20/2 lb can
• Fish, Gorton's, frozen, ready to fry codfish cakes, .25/pkg
• Flour, 7.38/98 lb bag
• Ham, Cala, .25/lb
• Lamb, chops, .38/lb
• Lamb, short forequarters, .24/lb
• Lemon pie filling, Good Luck brand, .14/pkg
• Milk, condensed, 1.00/5 cans
• Potatoes, .78/16 qt basket
• Prunes, canned, .14/can
• Salt, Worcester, .25/3 boxes
• Sugar, granulated, Domino, .15/lb
• Tea, Tetley's, .04/lb
• Tomatoes, 6 cans, 1.00/lb

Furniture

• Bed, enamel, full-sized, 100.00/each
• Bedroom set, mahogany suite, Louis XVI, 9 pieces, 1,928.00/set
• Carpet binding, .10/roll
• Music cabinet, mahogany, 22.00-38.00/each
• Range, gas, Lorain, 110.86
• Water heaters, gas, 2.00/each

Household & seasonal goods

• Blanket, beacon, wool nap, 9.98/pair
• Cooking utensils, granite ware, 1.00
• Curtains, Renaissance lace, 10.50/pair
• Flower bulbs, hyacinth, 1.10/dozen
• Mirrors, 34" X 72", 50.00/each
• Range, 94.70/each
• Towel, Turkish, 1.39-2.00/each
• Wallpaper, .15/roll
• Window shades, .75-1.75/each

Newspapers

Daily Record [Morristown NJ], .02/weekday paper

Personal care & health

• Beecham's Pills (for indigestion), .25/bottle
• Kellogg's Tasteless Castor Oil, .15/bottle
• Kotalko (for hair growth), .10/proof box
• Postum, cereal health drink, .25/50 cup pkg
• Wash cloth, .07/each

Real estate

Houses for sale

• Farm, 25 acres, 10 room house, 15,000.00
• Morristown, 8 rooms, 2 family, 3,200.00
• Morristown, 7 rooms, single family, 5,500.00

Houses for rent

• 9 rooms & bath, 100.00/month

Apartments & rooms

• YMCA, furnished rooms, 3.50/week

Recreation & amusements

• Belgian hares (rabbits), 10.00/each
• Bicycle, girl's, 10.00
• Business supper, YMCA, .60/ticket
• Cigars, Ms. J. Noltz, .10-.15/each
• Concert, Enrico Caruso & others, 10.00/ticket
• Dance, Elks Entertainment, 1.00-3.00/ticket, includes war tax
• Horse show, Far Hills, .50/admission
• Movies, Liberty Theatre, .17/matinee; .22/evening
• Piano, 50.00
• Scarf pins, 10.50/each
• Steeplechase & pony races, Whippany River Club, 2.00/admission