It was a clear and cool morning in Rome, Georgia, with a refreshing breeze. Mr. Lanham cut some “fine buds” from the rose bushes in his garden before heading to the Lanham & Sons store office on Broad Street.
His job today was to try to get “financial arrangements made for covering the income tax claim, so as to clear the records for the mortgage” to the…
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