Historic Prices: 1928

Automobiles

New

• Century Eight Cabriole, 2,105.00
• Hudson, Roadster, super six, 1,295.00
• Oldsmobile, 2 door sedan, 925.00

Used

• 1926, Essex Coach, 150.00
• 1921, Overland touring, 50.00
• Cadillac, 7 passenger touring, "late model," 850.00

Clothing

• Boy's knickers, linen, 1.49-1.98/pair
• Boy's shoes, Oxfords, 2.69-3.85/pair
• Children's coats, Cretonne, 2.00/each
• Children's shoes, 1.95/pair
• Men's coat, showerproof gabardine, 4.95/each
• Men's gold shoes, 7.50-8.50/pair
• Men's hat, straw, 1.95-3.85/each
• Men's shirt, Madras, 1.55/each
• Men's shoes, Oxfords, 3.65/pair
• Men's suit, flannel, 8.95/each
• Men's swimsuit, wool, 4.95/each
• Men's trousers, worsteds, 2.90-4.90/pair
• Men's union suit, .87/each
• Tennis shoes, Keds, .98/pair
• Women's bathing suit, Jantzen, 3.45/each
• Women's bloomers, 2.00/pair
• Women's dress, sleeveless flannel, 4.95/each
• Women's shoes, dress, 4.95-6.95/pair

Employment

• Ladies, sewing aprons, 18.00/dozen aprons
• Ladies, sewing smocks, 30.00/week
• Men, demonstrating "Amazing Magnetic Trouble Light," 50.00/10 orders daily
• Salesmen, cigars, 175.00/month plus expenses

Food & beverages

• Almonds, sugar coated, .49/lb
• Bacon, Sunnyfield, sliced, .19/half lb
• Bananas, .23/dozen
• Beets, Jersey, .06/bunch
• Butter, Luella, .51/lb carton
• Candy, chocolates, Sweet Home, .39/lb box
• Cantaloupes, .23/two
• Cereal, Post Toasties or Kellogg's Corn Flakes, .07/pkg
• Cheese, Kraft, American, .39/lb
• Cherries, .23/lb
• Chicken, R&R, boned, .50/can
• Coffee, High Art, .43/lb tin
• Cookies, National Biscuit Company, Oreos, .35/lb
• Corn, Asco, .15/can
• Corned beef hash, Prudence, .29/can
• Duck, Long Island, .28/lb
• Eggs, Gold Seal, .42/dozen
• Fish, sardines, .25/two cans
• Flour, Gold Seal, .29/five lb bag
• Ham, Vogt's Liberty Bell, cooked, .28/lb
• Juice, Asco, grape, .23/pint bottle
• Lamb chops, .60/lb
• Mustard, Princess, .05/tumbler
• Olives, Asco, stuffed, .10-.20/bottle
• Peaches, Georgia, .25/two lbs
• Peanut butter, Asco, .08/tumbler
• Pickles, sweet, .39/quart jar
• Pork & beans, Asco, .25/three cans
• Potatoes, New, .25/15 lbs
• Soda, Asco, ginger ale, .25/three bottles
• Sugar, .31/five lbs
• Tea, ASCO, black, .23/half lb pkg
• Tomatoes, .23/two lbs
• Watermelon, .59/each

Household

• Alarm clock, 2.39-3.39/each
• Baby stroller, 13.95/each
• Curtains, .87-1.59/pair
• Dinnerware, Limoges China, 100 piece setting for 12, 27.50-49.75/set
• Iron, electric, 3.69-4.95/each
• Laundry detergent, Octagon, Supersuds, .25/three pkgs
• Mason jars, .75/pint; .85/quart
• Matches, Ohio Blue Tip, .25/six big boxes
• Mop, "Betty Bright", .64/each
• Napkins, paper, .25/36 napkins
• Plates, paper, "ice cream size," .03/dozen
• Range, gas, 51.75/each
• Refrigerator, Frigidaire, 210.00-270.00/each
• Rug, Japanese rush, oval, 9' X 12', 21.75/each
• Sheets, Utica, 72" X 90", 1.23-1.69/each
• Tea wagon, mahogany finish, 19.50/each
• Towels, Cannon, bath, 3.00/six towels
• Waffle set, Porcelain, 3.79/set
• Waxed paper, Princess, .09/50 sheets

Lawn & garden

Extrusion window screens, 24" X 33", .39/each

Newspaper

.02/daily paper

Personal care & health

• Hair brush, Prophylactic, .49/each
• Permanent wave, Genuine oil method, 10.00/person
• Powder, bath, .45/container
• Soap, Palmolive, .20/3 cakes
• Toilet paper, American, .25/four rolls
• Tonic, Liebig's malt, .25/bottle

Real estate

Houses for sale

• Morristown, 8 rooms, 13,000.00
• Morristown, 6 rooms, 8,000.00
• Morristown, 5 rooms, bungalow, 4,500.00

Houses for rent

• Morristown, half a double house, 45.00/month
• Morristown, 7 rooms, 75.00/month
• Morristown, 6 rooms, 45.00/month

Apartments & rooms

• Morristown, 5 rooms, 50.00/month
• Morristown, 4 rooms, 25.00/month
• Morristown, 3 rooms, 35.00/month

Recreation & amusements

• Bicycles, Golden Arrow, 36.00-45.00/each
• Radio, Majestic, 85.00-163.00/each
• Scooters, children's, 2.98-4.50/each
• Supper & fair, Hilldale Park Presbyterian Church [Cedar Knolls, NJ], .50/person
• Wagons, children's, 5.25-6.75/each