Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Mr. Lanham Revisited: July 31, 1926

Mr. Lanham Revisited: July 31, 1926

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Mr. Lanham Revisited: July 31, 1926
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It was another Saturday of rain and poor business at Lanham & Sons, though Mr. Lanham allowed it was “about as good as could be expected under the circumstances.”

He must have been shocked to read the Atlanta Constitution that day, where banner headlines announced the cold-blooded murder of “Nemesis of Underworld” Bert Donaldson, the chief investigator o…

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