Mr. Lanham Revisited: Feb. 6, 1926
A drawing is held for a Ford
Whoa! What’s this?
“Gave Ford away and had an immense crowd,” Mr. Lanham wrote. Gave away a Ford? Who? The Kiwanis Club? He doesn’t say. But the winning ticket was held by a Mr. B.M. Hester of neighboring Adairsville.
By 1922, Ford Motor Company was selling more than a million Model T cars a year, led by its charismatic (and sometimes woefully wrong-heade…
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