Mr. Lanham said he was late getting to work today, too late, he wrote, to sweep the floor. (Goodness! Couldn’t they find someone who didn’t have a law degree to do something so menial?) “Business gradually falling off, but was over $400 again today,” he wrote. That’s about $7,700 in current dollars.
He was focused again on his civic duties, including wri…
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