Historic Prices: 1924
Automobiles
- Hudson Super Six Coach, 1,500.00
- Essex Six Coach, 975.00
- Used, Cleveland Sedan, 1923, 700.00
Clothing
- Men's coat, Hart, Schaffner & Marks, 35.00-75.00/each
- Men's suits, 4 piece, 24.00-28.50/each
- Men's shirts, Oxford, 1.59/each
- Women's skirt, 4.95-10.95/each
- Women's dress, silk, 15.00/each; housedress, .95/each
- Women's dress shoes, 4.85-7.85/pair
- Women's coats, Twill, 16.94-23.94/each
- Boy's suits, 4.95-12.00/each
- Girl's dress, .59-1/00/each
- Tots's bloomer dresses, .95/each
- Hats, straw, 2.25-3.00/each
Food & beverages
- Bacon, Swifts Scheid, .35/lb
- Bananas, .40/dozen
- Beef, roast, .33/lb; chopped, .22/lb
- Butter, Brookfield, .40/lb
- Chocolates, Cloverland, .45/lb
- Chicken, frying, .39/lb
- Cocoa, Hooton's, .13/half pound can
- Coffee, Rex Blend, .41/lb
- Cranberry sauce, .24/no.2 can
- Duck, Long Island, .29/lb
- Eggs, .32/dozen
- Fish, cod steak, fresh .18/lb
- Ham, Swift's Premium, .25/lb
- Ketchup, Sundale, .19/large bottle
- Lemons, .25/dozen
- Lettuce, head, .15/lb
- Onions, .05/bunch
- Oranges, .25/13
- Peaches, Del Monte, sliced, .15/no.1 can
- Pineapples, Regina, .29 large can
- Potatoes, .89/half bushel
- Soda, Cliquot Ginger Ale, .25/2 bottles
- Spaghetti, Franco American, .10/can
- Tea, Orange Pekoe, .29/quarter pound carton
Furniture
- Baby crib and mattress, 15.25/set
- Bed, metal, 16.50-30.00/each
- Lamps, table, vase pottery, 10.75/each
- Rug, Linoleum, 9X12, 12.98/each
- Rug, Persian, Serappi, 8X11, 295.00-295.00/each
Garden equipment
Lawn mower, 8.05/each
Household goods
- Carpet sweeper, 2.79-3.50/each
- Cleanser, Old Dutch, .07/container
- Curtains, 1.00-2.00/pair
- Clothes washer, 77.50/each
- Dishes, dinner plates, .10/each
- Disinfectant, Lysol, .69/pint
- Laundry soap, Borax, .13/lb
- Paint, Benjamin Moore, 2.49/gallon
- Range, Public Service Gas, 97.00/each
- Sheets, 1.24/each
- Toilet bowl cleaner, Saniflush, .19/can
Newspapers
Daily Record .01/weekday paper
Personal care & health
- Aspirin, Bayer's, .79/100 count bottle
- Bell-Ans, indigestion pills, .25-.75/pkg
- Face cream, White Youth Clay, .50-1.00/jar
- Hot water bottle, rubber, .79/each
- Milk of Magnesia, .25/pint
- Razor blades, Gillette, .50/dozen
- Talcum powder, .15/lb
- Toilet paper, 2.25/12 rolls
- Toothbrush, imported, .50/5
- Toothpaste, .89/2 large tubes
Real estate
- Morristown, "modern single dwellings," 3 floors, 29,000.00
- Morristown, 2 family, 2 car garage, 7,500.00
- Cedar Knolls, 6 rooms, 2,400.00
- Chatham Terrace, plots 50X150, 750.00-1,500.00
- Rent, Morristown house, Water St., 25.00/month
- Apartments, 4-6 rooms, Morristown, 50.00/month.
Recreation & amusements
- Bicycle, Columbia, 35.00-38.50/each
- Dinner, South Street Restaurant, Sunday chicken or turkey dinner, 1.25/person
- Movie, Lyon's Theatre, "Jackie Coogan in "A Boy of Flanders," .22-.55/ticket
- Player piano, 345.00/each
- Radio, Neutrodyne, 100.00/each
- Record albums, 1.00/3 albums
- Tricycle, child's, 4.50-8.00/each