Mr. Lanham Revisited: Oct. 5, 1926

"If it were not for the low price of cotton..."

Julia Anne’s cough had kept her parents up most of the previous night, so Mr. Lanham did not get up in time to cut any roses this morning. He did observe that the Los Angeles and Wellington roses were in bloom, though.

“Business holds up fairly well and if it were not for the low price of cotton, business would be rushing,” he wrote. Indeed, newspapers i…