Mr. Lanham's Diary, April 17, 1926

He reads the registers

Mr. Lanham at last had a “fairly good” day of business to report at Lanham & Sons. His brother Felix had taken the day off to go to the mountains, so he read the cash registers himself at the end of the day.

Did you know cash registers were invented to keep employees from “robbing the till”? The first one was devised in 1879 by a Dayton, Ohio saloon keep…