Nellie Bly, a pioneer American woman journalist, told her story to a crowd at the Schaumburg Township District Library. Making history come alive on the first day of summer was Lynn Rymarz ...

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“the Nellie Bly you’ve never heard of.” Norris was born in 1860 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, one of fifteen siblings impoverished by their father, an evangelist and an abolitionist who devoted ...

She was a reporter out of Pittsburgh, named Nellie Bly. (Actually, this was her journalists’ nom de plume; it was unseemly for female reporters to use their own names. Her real name was ...

On Nov. 14, 1889 — 135 years ago today — the world’s most famous female journalist – Nellie Bly of the New York World – set out to see if she could beat a fictional around-the-world ...

The men in the newsroom made suggestions and the name "Nelly Bly" was proffered ... Madden spelled the Nelly of the song as "Nellie." ...