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 29, 1926

Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 29, 1926

He's busy as a bee buzzing around Rome on Sunday

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Aug 29, 2023
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Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 29, 1926
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It was Sunday, but Mr. Lanham, a temporary bachelor, stayed busy bouncing between his mother’s house and church. His wife and daughter remained in Americus.

“Up about seven,” he wrote. “Shaved, arranged S.S. worship programme, then went out to Mama’s for breakfast.” Attendance was small at Sunday School — the final week of August — and he stayed for chur…

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