Well I sorta misled you guys, I just checked with the authority (Eve's grandfather) and it wasn't a radio show, it was from a book Rufus and Rose by Horatio Alger Jr. He wrote a lot of 'rags to riches' books, I believe in the early 20th century. I remembered the Rufus and Rose bit, but I thought it was a radio show.
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