It was a clear and cold winter day in Rome, Georgia, with heavy frost and a little snow. Mr. Lanham’s daughter, Julia Anne, suffering through the mumps, had not slept well, so she and her mother slept late this morning.
He went to work at Lanham & Sons, the dry goods store he ran with his father and brother, Felix, on Broad Street, but business was very …
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