Clarification regarding the trip from Burbank to Purdue:
AMELIA EARHART LANDS LABORATORY AT PURDUE (By Associate Press) (San Antonio Express, Sunday, September 20, 1936)
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 19.— Amelia Earhart, noted woman flyer, arrived at Purdue University in her "flying laboratory" airplane from North Platte, Neb., this afternoon. She will stay at the school for six weeks to continue her experiments with the new airplane. Miss Earhart was accompanied here by her publisher-husband, George Palmer Putman [sic], and "Bo" McNeely, her mechanic. She flew the 800 miles from North Platte in 3 [and] 1/2 hours. She stopped in North Platte last night after having flown from Burbank, Calif.
Better understanding of the events 9/20-9/29/36:
Amelia Earhart to Fly Here To Participate Tuesday in Democratic State Conclave (Syracuse Herald, Monday, September 28, 1936)
"Amelia Earhart...will arrlve here [this is a prediction, not yet fact] by plane [not necessarily NR16020] Tuesday morning to attend the Democratic State Convention... She made her maiden political speech for Presldent Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gov. Herbert H. Lehman last week when she toured Columbia and Saratoga Counties with the Democratic Women's Caravan [this is what she's been doing since leaving NR16020 at Purdue]. She will [another prediction] fly to the Municipal Airport at Amboy from her home, it is announced [by whom?]." [Regardless, she did not in fact fly to Syracuse.]
Miss Earhart Greeted Here By Notables (Syracuse Herald, Tuesday, September 29, 1936)
[Excerpt from a long article]: "The plane is one she flew lately from California, with her husband as a passenger. It is at Purdue. He and she motored from Monticello [a village between Rye, just north of New York City, and Syracuse] overnight, after starting from Rye late Monday." "Mr. Putnam said they would leave probably Tuesday night returning to New York [City]."
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