Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
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Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 21, 1926

Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 21, 1926

Headlines trumpet news of dime store magnate's nasty divorce

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Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 21, 1926
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It was another slow Saturday at Lanham & Sons, which Mr. Lanham again blamed on heavy rain.

Readers of the Atlanta Constitution opened their morning papers to find a large photo of the fetching young (second) wife of S.S. Kresge, the dime store magnate and one of the wealthiest and most successful businessmen in America. Mrs. Kresge had just returned to …

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