Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
Mr. Lanham Revisited: July 16, 1926

Mr. Lanham Revisited: July 16, 1926

He gets a postcard from his women folk

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Kathryn Smith
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Mr. Lanham Revisited: July 16, 1926
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With his women folk away, Mr. Lanham spent the night at his mother and father’s house. He was at work at the family store on Broad Street by 6:30, freshly bathed and shaved. He got a postcard from his wife and daughter, telling him they had arrived safely in Americus. Perhaps they mailed it from this post office building. The vintage postcard was offere…

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