Mr. Lanham Revisited: Jan. 11, 1926

A funeral, volleyball, and another dull day at the store

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 …