The paper is dominated by advertising with very little space allocated for news. Not surprisingly many of the advertisements have a direct reference to the Great War.
In one of them town clerk G Murch was asking people to lend their motor cars to help transport disabled soldiers, nurses and veterans in the procession for Peace Day that was coming up.
Real estate prices seem ludicrously cheap now but remember this was nearly 100 years ago. For $2000 you could buy a seven-room house on Durie Hill on a quarter acre (1000 sq m) section. Or paying $54 an acre would buy you a "nice little dairy farm" carrying 35 cows near Inglewood.
Warnocks were advertising millinery, costumes and crepe de chine blouses among other items of women's finery. And Mrs Cleland announced she was resuming her children's dance classes in the Druids Hall.
There was a testimonial endorsing "Drinko" as sure-fire cure for those addicted to the demon drink. Smokers were able to buy a packet of 20 cigarettes for 1 shilling and 4 pence - 14c in our currency.
Shipping movements were regular through Whanganui's port and 20 shillings ($2) got you a return ticket on the SS Invercargill from Whanganui to Wellington.
F N Chainey announced that owing "to an enormous increase in business" he had "removed to more commodious premises" at 142 Guyton St.
If you were looking for hearty start to the day Creamota was advertised as "the breakfast dish as delicious as it looks" while other products being promoted included Bonnington's Irish Moss cough elixir and HP sauce.
The broadsheet pages of the 1919 Chronicle gave up scant space for news. But one report from Brisbane told of returned soldiers "attacking" the Daily Standard newspaper offices in that city and "calling on the paper to apologise to the soldiers for certain remarks published". What those remarks were we weren't told.
But wisely the state government had ordered all the pubs in Brisbane to stay shut.
