As was his custom, Mr. Lanham brought some flowers to the Lanham & Sons store today, but business was very dull and he was feeling quite hopeless about the prospects for reversal. “It is disillusioning to see how one’s friends even seem to desert when financial troubles come,” he wrote. “But I will not bow to this discouragement, but will make every eff…
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