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Grace Darling

... Vikings sailed and the rounded hills of the Border. Women have done many brave things in our generation. Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Queen Marie of Rumania, Helen Keller and many others will be remembered for their patient courage or spectacular daring ...

Published: Thursday 21 July 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORLD FLIGHT

... WORLD FLIGHT HELD UP. Miss Earhart Cool in Runaway Crash. HONOLULU, Sunday Presence of mind saved Miss Amelia Earhart and two men companions in her M-e aeroplane, Flying Laboratory, tikinc off at Honolulu yesterday on e‘ l secoTd stage of a 27.000 miles ...

Published: Monday 22 March 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE ATLANTIC GIRL

... ATLANTIC GIRL. SPEECH TO BE BROADCAST FROM LONDON. (From Our London Stafl.) LONDON, Thursday. The 8.8. C. announces that Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic, will broadcast on Monday next. Her speech, following a luncheon given by the Air ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PJaying Fields, Odsal, Bradford, last night. (By a Mercury photographer.) MISS DIFFICULTIES NEW YORK. Friday ..

... a Mercury photographer.) MISS DIFFICULTIES NEW YORK. Friday The coastguard cutter Itasca is preparing search for Miss Amelia Earhart after receipt of a wireless message at 1.12 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time), stating that she had only half an hour’s fuel ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 216 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

RIVAL WOMEN FLIERS

... FLIERS. PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHTS ACROSS ATLANTIC. ST. JOHN’S (Nfd.), Thursday. The Fokker ’plane Friendship, on which Miss Amelia Earhart to fly to Southampton, has been unloosed from her moorings a,t Trepassey, and is apparently being prepared for a start ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Woman Starts on Lone

... Woman Starts on Lone HARBOUR GRACE (Newfoundland), Friday. M iss Amelia Earhart took off from here to-night for Paris. She is attempting a solo trans-Atlantic flight, and is making for the same destination aimed at by Col. Lindbergh just five years ago ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1932
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE SEARCH FOR MISS EARHART U.S. Battleship Withdrawn WASHINGTON, Monday The Navy Department announced to-day ..

... that the U.S. battleship, Colorado, and its three aeroplanes have withdrawn from the search of the South Seas for Miss Amelia Earhart, the missing airwoman. It is only after a complete search the Phoenix Islands and other islands in the neighbourhood that ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Flight

... Markham, the colliery baronet. If she succeeds. she will be the first woman to accomplish the feat. Only one woman, Miss Amelia Earhart, the American, has accomplished the West to East flight. to-night, I expect that Mrs. Markham will be in New York in ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1936
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHO HAVE BEEN OUR GREATEST WOMEN?

... in the Christian Science Monitor,” and was astounded. Some names were famous enough—Mary Baker Eddy, Helen Keller, and Amelia Earhart Putnam, for example—but I Have to admit that some of the other heroines in the list were complete strangers, and I had ...

Published: Friday 10 February 1933
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1046 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STORY

... American delegate s message she said she ' the missin flier, Amelia hart ers of Winsconsin, claimed that v « message from Amelia Earhart, v ® up for dead after an exhausm the South Pacific. that it was the practice of sl t round a box containing a 4.?® microphone ...

Published: Tuesday 07 September 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

M.P.’s Wife Interested

... E. Guest, M.P., is really the prime mover in the flight, and is said to financing it to the extent of at least £B,OOO. Amelia Earhart was invited to act as one of the two pilots. Miss Earhart, who is pilot of experience, was reported to have said in a ...

Published: Monday 18 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Story

... Story WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE disappearance of Miss Amelia Earhart on the last lap of her round-the-world flight last month is recalled by the arrest of a New York man here to-night. The man has been detained in connection with an attempt to extort ...

Published: Thursday 05 August 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 5 | Tags: none