Mr. Lanham Revisited: Jan. 9, 1926

Julia Anne has the mumps

It was a cloudy and cold Saturday in 1926 “with very little business — in fact the poorest Saturday I remember,” Mr. Lanham wrote of the family department store in downtown Rome, Georgia. His father had taken the train to New York that day, apparently on a buying trip. He lost his ticket prior to boarding the train, but fortunately the conductor found i…