Mr. Lanham Revisited: June 24, 1926

Julia Anne has a heart murmur; armless baseball player appears in Atlanta

For once, Mr. Lanham wrote about his flowers at the bottom of his diary entry rather than at the top, which may indicate how worried he was about his five-year-old daughter. He said he and his wife were up until 2 a.m. with Julia Anne, and by 6 a.m. her fever had dropped only slightly, to a little over 103. Her doctor, Dr. McCord, made a house call and …