Threatening weather caused the church’s Workers Council to cancel an outdoor meeting today. It was the half-day at the Lanham & Sons store, so Mr. Lanham was home by four o’clock and devoted several hours to his garden, “pulling weeds and putting things to right.” With the calamity of the store’s bankruptcy looming over him, he probably relished having …
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