Scan the front page of the North Eastern Daily Gazette dated November 11, 1918 and you might be taken aback.
For there are no screaming headlines proclaiming the end of the Great War and no pictures captured on the battle front confirming the end of hostilities.
Instead, you will find, as usual, the broadsheet full of adverts for everything from baby clothes at A E Lockey on Linthorpe Road to furniture and pianos listed in the miscellaneous wants.
In fact, the only thing that gives anything away relating to the events of that momentous day is the top right hand corner of the page where there's a 'war special' box alerting readers to the news.
You have to turn inside to find the story and, although there are no pictures, the essentials are there. And plenty more followed on the armistice over the next few days.
'Armistice signed at 5 o'clock this morning, Fighting ceased at 11am' it says after news was transmitted through the wireless station of the French government and telephoned to the newsroom.
Newsboys flooded the streets with the paper containing the announcement and people began to gather on the streets of Teesside. People flocked to Middlesbrough and Stockton town centres, church bells rang, flags were displayed in windows and the streets were lit up with lamps. Authorised firework displays and bonfires were allowed by the military and the people of Middlesbrough obliged.
Recruiting ended, all call up notices were cancelled.
In the Northern Notes section of the paper, reports said celebrations went on all day and in to the night in Middlesbrough: 'The town has seldom passed through 14 hours of such joy,' says the report which described the streets as a 'seething mass of humanity' as crowds poured in to town.
Stockton people gathered in the High Street, the band of Bowesfield iron works played and: 'People sang the national anthem with all their hearts and all the powers their lungs could give' followed by cheers for the king.