Mr. Lanham's Diary Revisited: Jan. 14, 1926

His mother's furnace smokes up the house

Mr. Lanham’s mother had a crisis at her house. It was cold and her furnace smoked badly all day. “I had to try and open it up, so had a time,” he wrote. “My clothes still smell of smoke.”

Meanwhile, brother Felix’s mumps had caused his glands to swell so much they had almost blocked his throat. Julie Anne, however, seemed fully recovered and got to play …