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Throwback Thursday: Six and Twenty equals 50
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The Six and Twenty Club celebrating its 50th anniversary at the General Denver. From left are Adda Hains Hildebrant, Marshie Austin, Tacy Walker Robinson and Wilmina Kembrough. Can you tell us more? Share it at info@wnewsj.com. The photo is courtesy of the Clinton County Historical Society. Like this image? Reproduction copies of this photo are available by calling the History Center. For more info, visit www.clintoncountyhistory.org; follow them on Facebook @ClintonCountyHistory; or call 937-382-4684.
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• ‘Two Women To Attempt Atlantic Flights’
“NEW YORK (AP) A race between two women fliers, each determined to be first of her sex to make a solo hop across the Atlantic, was in prospect today. One of them is an American, Miss Ruth Nichols of Rye., N.Y. who has flown a plane slightly more than 210 miles an hour, the highest speed ever attained by a woman. The secon
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Ruth Nichols wasn’t afraid.
Not since her first ride in a biplane in 1919, when the pilot did loop-de-loops to terrify her. She conquered her fear and began a career as an aviatrix with the singular purpose of being the best.
In the years following Charles Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight in 1927, courageous female pilots were in a drive to out-fly one another in the race to be the first woman to repeat Lindbergh’s feat.
Aviation was still in its infancy. Pilots were daredevils, flying by the seat of their pants, to go faster, further, higher than ever before using shockingly unsophisticated machinery.
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