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: Dec. 11, 1926

Mr. Lanham Revisited: Dec. 11, 1926

He is back in Rome and loving it!

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Kathryn Smith
Dec 11, 2023
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Mr. Lanham Revisited: Dec. 11, 1926
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It was a Saturday, and Papa Lanham made a brief appearance at his Rome department store, Lanham & Sons. I bet he got a hero’s welcome. “Business good today,” his son wrote. A Mr. Hays, who had stepped in to manage things while Mr. Lanham went to care for his father in New York, had treated the business “like it was his own.”

Mr. Lanham had missed home an…

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