Mr. Lanham Revisited: Feb. 13, 1926

It's almost Valentine's Day...

Mr. Lanham’s last words in the previous day’s diary were further validated today. Though it was a Saturday and the weather was tolerable, “trade '[was] poor at store,” he wrote. The rest of his entry is devoted to weather conditions and social visits — pretty mundane stuff.

Not so the front page of the Atlanta Constitution, which trumpeted the news that …