Here's a Bright Little Girl

She Wants Some Exposition Literature to Use on Her Papa
The Buffalo Evening News, April 4, 1901

A great pile of routine Exposition Mail received by Secretary Fleming this morning was relieved of its monotony by the following delightful bit of correspondence:

Ripon, Wis., April 2, 1901

Dear Sir -  I am a little girl about 8 years old and I am trying to coax my papa to take me to the fair this summer. Will you do me the favor to send some of your literature that I may show it to him and thus hope to bring him around to my way of thinking. Yours truly,  ___________________________

(Dictated to the bookkeeper.)
This letter is from the little daughter of the proprietor of one of the department stores of Ripon.
 

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