Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Mr. Lanham Revisited: Dec. 31, 1926

Mr. Lanham Revisited: Dec. 31, 1926

Here is what happened to Henderson Lanham

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Dec 31, 2023
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Mr. Lanham Revisited: Dec. 31, 1926
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It was the final day of the year 1926. Mr. Lanham presided over police court. “A Mr. Hall, charged with being drunk, came in early wanting to put up $5.76 cash bond,” he wrote. That was almost $100 in today’s money. “I talked to him awhile and let it take that course.”

As it was his mother’s birthday, he, Anne and Julia Anne gave Mama Lanham a “traveling…

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