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April 9th 1932
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F. R. Humpage - ROSIE
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Dear Fred:
I have yours of the 8th, and notice that you have not been
feeling well, neither have I. Why don't you try a diet
-- of grapefruijuice, a lot of tomatoes and only lean
meat. Cut out' white bread, butter, milk, and all kinds
of fats. No grease of any kind. If you do this, I bet •
you will be well in ten days, or at least you will feel
better.
I ran across a prospective buyer in Atlanta for the
elephant, also another one in Philadelphia. I believe
anybody thatcan sell an elephant under present conditions
can sell a gold brick. I am hopping around with the idea
in my mind that I would like to sell an elephhnt during
these troublesome times.
• First the elephant is thirteen years old. She was born
in India, and went to French Lick Springs, Indiana ind in
1924 Dawe to Miami Beach.
The elephant wasr
p presented to me by Mr. Ed Ballard,
the owner of all the circuses in this country at that time.
She weighs four tons, and is nine feet high in the shoulders.
1 don't know her girth.
I want to keep the price of $5,000 for another week or
so, until I get answers from two purghasers that I have
in mind, and if she doesnot sell, I will make the price
$2590.00. -
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Will send you some photographs today.
The class of kids we have riding with her are all email
athletes who can swim and dive, and could ride a jumping
1 elephant to say nothing of a walking elephant.
The elephant hauls her own food in a cart. She gives herself
` a bath from a hose, and she can dance the Black Bottom
better than most Harlemite entertainers.
This elephant is kind and gentle as a Newfoundland dog.
She has been photographed in possibly millions of films;
rotogravure pictures by the thousands of feet have been
l' run by all the netspapers,in the country.
CGF—HM C. G. FISHER
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