Mr. Lanham Revisted: Jan. 4, 1926

He reads the story of Brer Rabbit and the tar baby to Julia Anne

It rained nearly all day and business was “very dull” at Lanham & Sons, the Lanham family’s dry goods store in Rome, Georgia. In addition to operating the business with his father and younger brother, Felix, Mr. Lanham had a law practice — he was a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and had a master’s from Harvard — and served as the c…