Mr. Lanham's Diary, Feb. 6, 1926

A drawing for a Ford

Whoa! What’s this?

“Gave Ford away and had an immense crowd,” Mr. Lanham wrote. Gave away a Ford? Who? The Kiwanis Club? He doesn’t say! But the winning ticket was held by a Mr. B.M. Hester of neighboring Adairsville.

By 1922, Ford Motor Company was selling more than a million Model T cars a year, led by its charismatic (and sometimes woefully wrong-head…