Mr. Lanham's Diary, Jan. 9, 1926

An attack of the mumps

It was a cloudy and cold Saturday in 1926 “with very little business — in fact the poorest Saturday I remember.” His father had taken the train to New York that day, apparently on a buying trip. He lost his ticket prior to boarding the train, but fortunately the conductor found it.

If that wasn’t bad enough news, Julia Anne, who had just recovered from h…