Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Mr. Lanham's Diary: Oct. 28, 1937

Mr. Lanham's Diary: Oct. 28, 1937

Rest, reading and radio on an autumn night

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Mr. Lanham’s brother Felix went to Atlanta last night with “a crowd of other men” on a bus. “On the way back, early this morning a drunken Ford driver crashed into them near Sevey, seriously wounding one of the men but doing no damage to anyone in the bus,” he wrote.

Otherwise, it was a typical day. Business was good at the store both today, a Thursday,…

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