Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Mr. Lanham's Diary: Sept. 27, 1926

Mr. Lanham's Diary: Sept. 27, 1926

They prepare the store for reopening, plus some Hollywood gossip

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Mr. Lanham's Diary: Sept. 27, 1926
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Oh joy!

“Most of the folks back at the store this morning,” Mr. Lanham wrote. “We swept out and then got busy cleaning up.”

He worked in the office with his clerk Dorothy, checking on accounts, and then arranged for an advertising circular to be printed up announcing the reopening and sale that coming Friday. He also oversaw a middling police court, play…

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