5833 results found. Records searched: 5833

1. 1.10.33 - Letter

   Unsigned (possibly Anne B. Call) letter dated 8/25/1905 to Mr. I in Lancaster City saying that he/she has heard that Mr. I is spreading a rumor that his/her father has written an article in the Mobile Item rather than himself/herself adding "should you be unconvinced Miss Winnie Patterson will set you right."

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
2. 1.10.34-39 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/30/1905 to "My dear Miller" from James Bellangee responding to controversy caused by an article written by E. Q. Norton's in his newspaper, The Daphne Standard which Bellangee has asked him to correct.

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
3. 1.10.4-7 - Letter

   Letter dated 1/3/1905 to E. Q. Norton, editor of the Daphne Standard from (author unknown) replying to 10/4 letter written to Mr. Call. The letter refers to Norton's attacks on Dr. Hail, Mr. Call and the author's father. He/she says that Norton had either twisted the report of an encounter between Dr. Hail and Mr. Call himself or published a furnished report without investigation. He/she goes on to say the Mr. Gaston received a letter from someon...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
4. 1.10.40-41 - Letter

   Letter dated 9/41905 to James Bellangee from E. Q. Norton, editor Daphne Standard saying that the facts and figures given in his article in the Single Tax Review were taken from Fairhope Rent List, the county Tax Collectors books and other sources that he deemed to be reliable. He suggests that the Secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corportation make out a statement itemizing the mistakes together with corrections for publication in the Daphne ...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
5. 1.10.42 - Letter

   Letter dated 9/5/1905 to E. Q. Norton from James Bellangee acknowledging receipt of Norton's letter of 9/4/1905 and confirming that Norton has asked the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to provide corrections to the facts which they believe to be untrue which he has printed in his newspaper, The Daphne Standard rather than correcting them himself.

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
6. 1.10.43 - Letter

   Letter dated 9/6/1905 to James Bellangee from E. Q. Norton, editor Daphne Standard newspaper, acknowledging receipt to 9/5/1905 letter and saying that as he said in his last letter, if he can be shown where his article in the Single Tax Review was in error, he will be happy to correct it.

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
7. 1.10.44-47 - Letter

   Letter dated 9/9/1905 to E. Q. Norton from James Bellangee informing him that he is preparing a letter for the Daphne Standard newspaper in which he will point out the errors Norton has made in his article "inside facts." He is disappointed that Mr. Norton will not correct his own errors. This is an ongoing feud between the two. Mr. Norton feels he has not made errors and it is incumbent on the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to point out where t...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
8. 1.10.48-50 - Letter

   Letter dated 10/12/1905 to "Editor Item" from James Bellangee in response to E. Q. Norton's article in the Single Tax Review, "Inside Facts" in which Norton includes facts about Fairhope which Bellangee believes to be untrue. "But the true history of the dissagreements that have existed in Fairhope cannot be stated to the outside world without recognition of the influence of certain meddlers on the outside who have presumed to dictate how o...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
9. 1.10.51-52 - Letter

   Letter dated 11/21/1905 to James Bellangee from E. D. Braam, C. L. Coleman and H. C. Oswalt who are acting for a committee asking Bellangee to retract what they feel to be malicious and slanderous comments made about Dr. Harris S.Greeno, in his absense, at a meeting of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. James Bellangee said that Dr. Greeno was a drunkard and seldom sober. The committee feel that Dr. Greeno is a reputable and good citzen whose ...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
10. 1.10.53 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/24/1905 to James Bellangee from Robert L. Hubbard, editor Frontier magazine in Colorado Springs, Colorado, returning articles on Fairhope. They are limited on space and cannot give over so much to Fairhope.

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
11. 1.10.54-58 - Letter

    Letter dated 11/21/1905 to E. D. Bramm, C. L Coleman and H. C. Oswalt (committee) from James Bellangee in response to their request that Bellangee retract statements that they felt to be malicious and slanderous about H. S. Greeno. Bellangee claims that friends of Greeno forced a vote on Dr. Greeo's candidacy for membership in a meeting of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Bellangee says that whether he used the language which they attribute t...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
12. 1.10.59-63 - Letter

    Letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier from Anne B. Call. (There is a tally of a vote dated 1/23/1906 on the back of one of the pages of the letter so presumably the letter was written at this time approximately). The letter is in response to a criticism of a letter written by her father, James Bellangee, by the editor, E. B. Gaston. The subject is the method of taxation for public services. Mrs. Call cites passages from Progress and Povert...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
13. 1.10.62 - Membership List

    List of Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation presumed to be "on the ground" and qualified to vote and "not in arrears" dated 1/23/1906.

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
14. 1.10.64 - Receipt

    Receipts and Disbursements of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 7/16/1906.

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
15. 1.10.65-66 - Letter

    Letter dated 10/2/1906 to James Bellangee from Elliott G. Rickarby, lawyer from Mobile, Alabama enclosing a copy of an amendment to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation: Article VII, Sec. 4, Upon petition of ten per cent of the resident lease-holders in good standing, any act of the Executive Council relating to the disbursement of funds realized from rentals in excess of the amount necessary for the payment of taxes under th...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
16. 1.10.67-68 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/22/1907 to James Bellangee from E. B. Gaston telling him that he is returning his article as it does not see to be calculated to benefit Fairhope and would call for an explanation from Gaston and further comments from Bellangee. He has also had other communications that he will not use (in the Fairhope Courier).

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
17. 1.10.69-72 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/10/1907 to Joseph Fels from James Bellangee which is critical of Mr. Powell and the negative impact he has had on the Fairhope Colony. He says that Powell is dictatorial and cracks his whip which Fels patronage enables him to do. He says that Mr. Powell as principal and Mr. Gaston as accomplice cannot be trusted to administer the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation with scrupulous fidelity. He was at one time optimistic about Fairhop...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
18. 1.10.73-79 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/21/1907 to Joseph Fels from James Bellangee offering suggestions on how Fels can best help the Fairhope Colony. He thinks that outside contributions to the colony should be confined to securing more land for a more extensive experiment. He thinks that land contributions do not make them beggars but other gifts do have that tendency. He says that Fels should express confidence in the resources of the lands, labor applied to them, co...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
19. 1.10.8-11 - Letter

    Copy of a letter dated 3/12/1905 to E. B. Gaston from R. S. McMahon of New Iberia, Louisiana who has just returned from Fairhope which he sees as a "magnificent success" and "that its future welfare contains a promise of freedom for the world." He is worried about the venomous attacks being made on the Fairhope Colony by Dr. Greeno and Dr. Hail. He has just met with Mr. Weeks, who is fine lawyer and active Single Taxer and given him the constitu...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
20. 1.10.80 - Letter

    Letter dated 11/18/1907 written by James Bellangee, perhaps to Joseph Fels. It serves as a cover letter for 1.10.81-82 (a letter from Bellangee to Louis Post). Bellangee tells the recipient that an article written about Fairhope by Mr. A. J. Wolf has been printed in pamphlet form and also sent out as a supplement to the Daphne (Alabama) Standard newspaper by E. Q. Norton, editor. Bellangee says there are gross inaccuracies in Wolf's article a...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos