Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
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Mr. Lanham's Diary: July 12, 1926

Mr. Lanham's Diary: July 12, 1926

Tender thoughts about Julia Anne

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Mr. Lanham's Diary: July 12, 1926
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It was “clear and fine” today in Georgia’s Rome, Mr. Lanham wrote. The phlox in his garden was “lovely,” and he cut some flowers for the Lanham & Sons store that he ran with his father and brother Felix on Broad Street. Business was better today, which was a Monday, than it had been in the past few Mondays, he wrote.

He took his daughter Julia Anne and w…

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