Mr. Lanham's Diary, June 23, 1926

When it rains, it pours

There was nothing but bad news today for Mr. Lanham.

Not only was Julia Anne worse, with a fever of 104, but his mother fell sick during the night with a threatened attack of colitis.

There was another development in the failure of the family business, Lanham & Sons. (As a reminder, this was Rome’s first department store, founded by his father, and locate…