Mr. Lanham's Diary, July 30, 1926

A picture show at the auditorium and an elusive treasury secretary

It was a cloudy and cool morning in Rome and everything was “wet and bedraggled” in Mr. Lanham’s garden. He found a few buds to cut to decorate the Lanham & Sons store on Broad Street. The rain continued off and on all day and “Business was very, very dull,” he wrote.

He got in some exercise at the YMCA, playing volleyball, then gathered up his parents …