Mr. Lanham Revisited: March 15, 1926

Weird weather and a dentist drumming up business

The official beginning of spring was just days away, but you wouldn’t know it from the weather report in Rome. “All kinds of weather during the day—snow, rain, sleet and sunshine,” Mr. Lanham wrote. “It would be snowing one minute and the sun shining the next.”

Nevertheless, his yard man Mr. Holloway helpled him put out more roses at his house and his mo…