ca 1800's "Nellie Bly Bids Fogg Good-Bye." - poem: "... turn fiction to fact."
"Nellie SMOKES ... 'Brink's' New Wonder." / tobacco: cigar ? cigarette ?
- Antique Celebrity Newspaper Reporter Feminist Nellie Bly Nelly Bly Elizabeth Cochran Seaman
(FACT: Her Journalistic triumph inspired by the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.)
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NOTE: Displays well, but there is a small edge tear below her handbag, and not the crease, etc.
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Authentic Antique Original 1800's card / Feminist History -relate Business Advertising Card Poem:
"'O Fogg, good bye,' said Nellie Bly. / 'It takes a maiden spry,
To span the space'twixt thought and act, / And turn a fiction to a fact."
--- see Phileas Fogg sad behind earth horizon.
Nellie Bly (from www)
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field, as well as a player in the early feminist and Suffrage movements, and she launched a new kind of investigative journalism.
At birth she was named Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She was born in "Cochran's Mills", today part of the Pittsburgh suburb of Burrell Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Her father, Michael Cochran, was a laborer and mill worker who married Mary Jane. His father had immigrated from County Londonderry, Ireland in the 1790s. Cochran taught his young children a cogent lesson about the virtues of hard work and determination, buying the local mill and most of the land surrounding his family farmhouse. As a young girl Elizabeth often was called "Pinky" because she so frequently wore the color.
The editor chose "Nellie Bly", adopted from the title character in the popular song "Nelly Bly" by Stephen Foster. Cochrane originally intended that her pseudonym be "Nelly Bly", but her editor wrote "Nellie" by mistake and the error stuck.
In 1895 Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. Bly was 31 and Seaman was 73 when they married.
She retired from journalism and
became the president of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co., which made steel containers
such as milk cans and boilers. In 1904, her husband died.
In the same year, Iron Clad began manufacturing the steel barrel that was the model for the 55-gallon oil drum still in widespread use in the United States.
Bly was an inventor of a novel milk can and U.S. patent for a stacking garbage can,
both under her married name of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman.
For a time she was one of the leading women industrialists in the United States,
but embezzlement by employees resulted in the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. going bankrupt.
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