Historic Prices: 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