Historic Prices: 1927

Automobiles

New
  • Chevrolet, Coach, 595.00
  • Chevrolet, Sport Cabriolet, 715.00
  • Whippet, Touring, 625.00
Used
  • Essex Coach (no year specified), 325.00
  • 1925 Ford, Suburban, 50.00

Clothing

  • Boy's pants, corduroy, .89/pair
  • Boy's shirt, madras, .75-.95/each
  • Boy's suit, 3.85-4.59/each
  • Girl's coat, 12.88-29.50/each
  • Girl's dress, 5.00/3
  • Men's coat, 38.50-48.50/each
  • Men's coat, raccoon, 295.00-395.00/each
  • Men's necktie, silk, .89-1.00/each
  • Men's shirt, dress, 2.25-5.00
  • Men's pajamas, heavy flannel, 1.69-2.69/pair
  • Men's suit, 29.50-59.50/each
  • Men's sweater, 2.89-3.98/each
  • Men's union suits, fleece lined, .94/each
  • Women's coat, 48.50/each
  • Women's dress, silk, 16.00-24.95
  • Women's handbag, leather, 1.00-1.89/each
  • Women's hat, felt, 1.98-4.95/each
  • Women's pajamas, cotton, 1.69/pair
  • Women's shoes, dress, 2.85-7.85/pair
  • Women's sport coat, 27.50/each

Employment & services

Work at home, gilding greeting cards, 26.00/100 cards

Food & beverages

  • Apples, fancy eating, .25/10
  • Bacon, Cloverdale, .25/half lb
  • Beans, cut stringless, .16/can
  • Beef, sirloin steak, .29/lb
  • Butter, .55/lb
  • Cereal, Benefit, cornflakes, .15/2 pkgs
  • Cheese, Pabst, American, .25/half lb
  • Chicken, .29/lb
  • Cocoa, Benefit, .25/lb jar
  • Coffee, Progress, .49/lb
  • Corn, .15/can
  • Crisco, .25/lb
  • Eggs, .30/dozen
  • Fish, Del Monte, sardines, .25/2 tins
  • Fish, tuna, .22/8 oz can
  • Flour, Swansdown, .35/carton
  • Frankfurters, .24/lb
  • Ham, smoked Cala, .19/lb
  • Jelly, grape, .25/16 oz glass jar
  • Ketchup, Heinz, .24/large bottle
  • Lamb chops, loin & rib, .29/lb
  • Macaroni, Mueller's, .10/pkg
  • Margarine, Sweet Nut Oleo, .21/lb
  • Oats, Quaker, .10/pkg
  • Olives, Seville, .15-.25/bottle
  • Pears, Del Monte, California, .20/No. 2 can
  • Peanut butter, Cloverdale, .31/glass jar
  • Pickles, sweet, .39/quart
  • Pineapple, crushed, .20/can
  • Popping corn, Jolly Time, .12/pkg
  • Salt, shaker, .05/3 boxes
  • Sausage, link, .29/lb
  • Soup, Van Camp's, tomato, .24/3 cans
  • Syrup, Vermont Maid, maple, .25/22 oz jug
  • Tea, Orange Pekoe, .42/8 oz tin
  • Vanilla extract, .15-.29/bottle
  • Worcestershire sauce, Lea & Perrins, .25/bottle

Household & seasonal goods

  • Ammonia, .25/quart
  • Blanket, wool, 4.69-5.50/each
  • Blueing, .12/large bottle
  • Bread box, round white, .79/each
  • Brillo, .16/large size
  • Broom, .59/each
  • Chair, mahogany, 24.75-40.00/each
  • Cheesecloth, .24/5 yards
  • Clock, mantle, 12.50-100.00/each
  • Coat hangers, .05-.15/each
  • Curtains, cross bar, .25/pair
  • Dining room set, 10 pieces, walnut, 198.75/set
  • Dinnerware, 100 piece set, 17.98-22.98/each
  • Dishpan, grey enamel, .25/each
  • Lamp, floor, 21.50/each
  • Linoleum, Armstrong, 1.75-2.16/square yard
  • Living room furniture, 3 pieces, 177.50/set
  • Matches, Blue Tip, .25/5 boxes
  • Mop and stick, .50/each
  • Pillow cases, 45" X 39", .39/each
  • Tea pot, English, .79/each
  • Toaster, electric, 3.79-5.00/each
  • Waffle molds, electric, 8.95/each
  • Wallpaper, .10-.25/roll

Newspaper

.02/daily paper

Personal care & health

  • Bath salts, .50/pkg
  • Diuretic, Doan's pills, .60/bottle
  • Face cream, .39/jar
  • Heating pad, Westinghouse, electric, 8.95/each
  • Laxative, Bromoquinine, tablets .30/box
  • Soap, Palm Olive, .25/4 cakes
  • Talcum powder, .15-.25/pkg
  • Tissues, Kleenex, .25-.35/box
  • Toilet paper, 1,000 sheets, .25/3 rolls

Real estate

Houses for sale
  • Convent Station, 7 rooms, new, 9,000.00
  • Morris Plains, 6 rooms, 8,000.00
  • Morristown, 8 rooms, duplex, 10,500.00
Houses for rent
  • Morristown, 6 rooms, 65.00/month
  • Morristown, 7 rooms, 55.00/month
  • Morristown, 6 rooms, 35.00/month
Apartments & rooms
  • Morristown, 3 rooms, 20.00/month
  • Morristown, 6 rooms, 35.00/month
  • YMCA, furnished room [Morristown], 5.00/week

Recreation & amusements

  • Basketball game, YMCA, Bayley HS vs. Rockaway HS, .35/admission
  • Book, Wonder Book of Knowledge, 1.88-2.24/each
  • Dance, benefit Whippany Fire Company, .50/admission
  • Dinner, Model Restaurant [Morristown], "Blue Plate Special," .50/person
  • Movies, Palace Theatre, .15-.20/matinee; .20-.30/evening
  • Piano, new, 450.00/each
  • Puppies, English Setter, 15.00/each
  • Radio, Atwater Kent, 70.00; speaker, 21.00/each
  • Theatre, Broad Street [Newark NJ], .50-1.00/matinee ticket
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