1921

Automobiles

New
  • Hupmobile, sedan, 2,150.00
  • Chalmers, 1,295.00
  • Hupmobile, roadster or touring, 1,250.00
Used
  • 1921, Chevrolet, mileage 3,000, 375.00
  • 1920, Case, sedan, 1,200.00
  • 1919, Auburn touring, newly painted, 200.00

Clothing

  • Boy's rubber coat, 5.00/each
  • Children's coat, 5.50/each
  • Men's collars, Arrow, 1.00/6
  • Men's handkerchief, .65/3
  • Men's necktie, silk, .55/each
  • Men's shirt, silk, 4.95/each
  • Men's suit, 19.50-29.50/each
  • Shoes, Oxford, 5.95-7.95/each
  • Women's coat, natural raccoon, 16.50/each
  • Women's dress, Jowey Blansley, 10.93/each
  • Women's purse, .25-25.00/each
  • Women's shirtwaists, voile, .93/each
  • Women's skirt, wool, 3.93/each

Food & beverages

  • Bacon, Swift's Dixie bacon, .10/lb
  • Beef, chuck, .16/lb
  • Bread, A & P, .06/loaf
  • Butter, finest creamery, .45/lb
  • Candy, Maillard's sweet chocolate, .20/half lb
  • Cereal, Grape Nuts, .17/pkg
  • Chickens, roasting, .30/lb
  • Cookies, Nabisco, Fig Newtons, .19/lb
  • Corn, Maine style, .08/can
  • Duck, Long Island, .39/lb
  • Eggs, .47/dozen
  • Fish, Red Alaska, salmon, .19/tall can
  • Jam, blackberry, .25/1.5 lb pkg.
  • Ham, smoked calas, .22/lb
  • Macaroni, .10/pkg
  • Milk, Van Camps, evaporated, .09/can
  • Oil, Encore rare imported Italian olive, .89/quart
  • Ox tails, fresh, .10/lb
  • Pancake flour, Aunt Jemima's, .12/box
  • Peanut butter, .15/lb
  • Pork Roll, Taylor's, .40/lb
  • Raisins, Sun Maid, .21/pkg
  • Sausage, pure pork, .28/lb
  • Sugar, .05/lb
  • Tea, Orange Pekoe, .12/quarter lb pkg.
  • Tomatoes, New Pack, .08/#2 can
  • Yeast, Magic, .08/pkg.

Furniture

  • Bedroom suite, 4 piece, 85.00/set
  • Book case, 23.50/each
  • Breakfast room suite, 6 piece, 76.00/set
  • Chair, hand carved, mahogany, covered in French brocaded velour, 1,632.00/each
  • Chair, throne, 181.50/each
  • Dining room suite, 198.00/set
  • Lamp, floor, 12.98/each
  • Living room suite, 3 piece, 165.00/set
  • Table, dining room, 14.98/each
  • Tea wagon, 6.98/each

Household & seasonal goods

  • Broom, 1.00/2 units
  • Christmas cards, .02-1.00/each
  • Christmas tree lights, eight-light strand, 1.95/box
  • Dish washer, electric, 125.00/each
  • Flashlight, .59/each
  • Iron, Hot Point, electric, 5.95/6 lb unit
  • Lunch box, .05/each
  • Oil, Maralin, for oil cloths, .10/pkg.
  • Padlock, .10/each
  • Paint, 2.19/gallon
  • Pencil, Evershart, .50-6.00/each
  • Percolator, Hot Point, 6 cup, nickel plate, 12.75/each
  • Rat poison, "Rat Corn," .25-1.00/pkg.
  • Sand paper, .20/dozen
  • Snow shovel, .75/each
  • Toaster, electric, 3.75/each
  • Wallpaper, .15/roll
  • Washboard, .25/each
  • Washing machines, electric, 125.00/each
  • Woodstove, 3.50-4.50/each

Personal care & health

  • Beecham's Pills for liver & indigestion, .10/12 pills
  • Curling iron, Hot Point, 6.50/each
  • Liniment, Sloan's, .35-1.40/pkg.
  • Quinine, Cascara, .30/bottle
  • Razor, 1.50-4.00/each
  • Soap, Kirkman's, .27/5 cakes
  • Toilet paper, Blue Ribbon, 1.00/30 rolls

Real estate

Houses for sale
  • 7 rooms, garage, 6,500.00
  • 6 rooms, 3,500.00
  • Double house, 8 rooms, 3,500.00
  • Farm, 8 room house & 25 acres, 12,000.00
Houses for rent Bungalow, 4 rooms, unfurnished, 40.00/month Apartments & rooms
  • Morristown, 5 room flat with bath, 45.00/month
  • Morristown, furnished room, 10.00/month
  • Morristown, YMCA furnished rooms, 4.25/week

Recreation & amusements

  • Bicycle, Columbia, 35.00-52.50/each
  • Concert, Morristown High School, 1.00-2.00/ticket
  • Dance, Miller Hall [Morristown, NJ] .55/ticket, including war tax
  • Doll go cart, 1.00/each
  • Dolls, walking & talking, 3.00-12.00/each
  • Theatre ticket, Palace, .17 & .22/matinee; .22 & .33/evening
  • Victrola, 25.00-300.00/each

Tobacco & alcohol

Prohibition; no alcohol advertised No tobacco products advertised Malt & hops, Budweiser Anheuser Bush, 1.25
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