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Nellie Bly

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Woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochrane) gained world fame when she beat Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record for traveling around the world in 80 days by more than a week. Nellie's trip of 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds was featured on numerous trade cards. There are other cards available, including one featuring a "Nellie Bly" cap. If you have scans of trade cards, or other Nellie Bly memorabilia that you would like to add to this page, or if you have Nellie Bly trade cards to sell, please send an email to me.

NELLIE BLY BIDS FOGG GOOD-BYE

"O Fogg, good bye," said Nellie Bly
It takes a maiden to be spry,
To span the space twixt thought and act
And turn a fiction to a fact."
NELLIE BLY, BYE AND BYE

"O bye and bye," dreams Nellie Bly
Along a strand of light I'll hie
And stars and gleams will follow too,
But they must hustle if they do."

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For Biliousness, Headache and Constipation"
NELLIE BLY, ON THE FLY

When Nellie Bly went on the fly
To show what courage dared to try
She made the startled world confess
Men don't monopolize success.
NELLIE BLY, SKY HIGH

If Nellie Bly is in the sky
Observing Luna's phases
It is because the world's applause
Makes light of those it praises.
NELLIE BLY, LAST TIE

When Nellie Bly, the final Tie
That bound the earth had knotted,
The World looked on and cried "Welldone,
The Globe was bravely trotted."
NELLIE BLY, ON A BI

O Nellie Bly, upon a 'bi'
Around the planets in the sky
Pursues the stars, outstrips their gleams,
And races comets (in her dreams.)

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NELLIE BLY BIDS FOGG GOOD-BYE "O Fogg, good bye," said Nellie Bly It takes a maiden to be spry, To span the space twixt thought and act And turn a fiction to a fact."
	NELLIE BLY, BYE AND BYE "O bye and bye," dreams Nellie Bly Along a strand of light I'll hie And stars and gleams will follow too, But they must hustle if they do." Ad copy says "Use Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills For Biliousness, Headache and Constipation"
NELLIE BLY, ON THE FLY When Nellie Bly went on the fly To show what courage dared to try She made the startled world confess Men don't monopolize success.
	NELLIE BLY, SKY HIGH If Nellie Bly is in the sky Observing Luna's phases It is because the world's applause Makes light of those it praises.
NELLIE BLY, LAST TIE When Nellie Bly, the final Tie That bound the earth had knotted, The World looked on and cried "Welldone, The Globe was bravely trotted."
	NELLIE BLY, ON A BI O Nellie Bly, upon a 'bi' Around the planets in the sky Pursues the stars, outstrips their gleams, And races comets (in her dreams.)

Victorian Trade CardsNellie Bly

Victorian Trade Cards
Nellie Bly