2:50 a.m. ( 11 November 1918 )

"F-L-A-S-H F-L-A-S-H / ARMISTICE SIGNED."

The Toronto Telegram's operator was still in the office when his machine began to click. Many operators had gone to war, where their skills were needed for strategy and communication. In the labour shortage, the industry "had found a way to convert the Morse signal into characters that would print out on the tape," says Shirley Tillotson, a labour historian and professor emerita at Dalhousie and University of King's College. The automated technology was already in use in brokerages, banks and telegraph offices (where predominantly female operators monitored the ticker tape for mistakes) but newsrooms were still using the key-and-sounder technology. The operator was eating his late-night lunch when he stopped mid-bite and jumped to the wire. "It's amazing what those guys and the women who also worked in this trade could hear," Tillotson says. "It's just a blur to anyone who is not trained in it. It's fascinating evidence of the range of human perceptual abilities."

(Above, Toronto Star, Insight Section, 10 November 2018 Pages IN 6-7)
(Absolutely an amazing account The Toronto Star has done)