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On January 20, 1913, after her return to New York, Ms. Miller attempted to establish a new women's altitude record. During this flight the oil flow indicator broke, and she was covered with oil. Partially blinded, she successfully made a dangerous emergency landing.

Ms. Miller took an active part in World War I, even though she was not allowed to fly at the front as she would have liked. She joined the Women's Overseas Service League and was attached to the 82nd Infantry Division in France. She served first as an accountant and then went to the front as a canteen worker. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre and many American citations for her work. 

Mrs. Richberg Hornsby of Chicago was the eighth U.S. woman to receive a pilot's license. She soloed on June 12, 1914. Not much is known about her except that she was a graduate of the Wright School in Dayton, Ohio.

It was not until late 1912 that the West Coast had its own aviatrix. Before that, people interested in the novelty of women flying aircraft had to be content with waiting until East Coast exhibition groups made tours. But late in the summer of 1912, Alys McKey, a California girl, answered a classified