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1903_Courier |
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Newspaper |
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Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1903. The paper was published on the 1st and 15th of each month. All editions are available. The December 15, 1903 paper has a four page supplement about "the Only Colony of Single-Taxers in the World" reprinted by permission from the Judge Publishing Company, October 8, 1903 edition of Leslie's Weekly. A new press was acquired for the Courier in 1903 resulting in more efficient and better quality printing. These historic papers are scanned using Opitcal Character Recognition (OCR) in pdf format and are keyword searchable using the "find" or "search" function in your browser. Some topics covered in the 1903 Couriers: Personal and Local news, Mrs. Howland's Letters columns, Fairhope Public Library information, several letters from Professor James Bellangee who was traveling in the north and east on a long trip promoting the single tax and the Fairhope Colony, the arrival of Samuel H. Comings and Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings to live in Fairhope, a telephone system for Fairhope, planting trees on Fairhope streets, Cemetery information, and poems appeared on the front page of many issues. In addition, there are essays and articles from single tax journals, reform publications, and letters from other single taxers. Marietta Johnson is mentioned several times in the papers. She became the teacher at the public school in Fairhope in 1903. Her teaching methods and philosophy are discussed in Mrs. Marie Howland's column of October 15, 1903. (Mrs. Johnson would leave Fairhope for a few years, return to the Colony in 1907 to start the Organic School with the encouragement of Samuel H. Comings and Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings.) The so-called "Fairhope Bill" passed the Alabama State legislature in 1903 replacing 20-year state charters with perpetual charters. The Fairhope Industrial Association needed to re-incorporate in Alabama to replace its Iowa charter of 1894. This legislation gave the FIA a firm legal foundation because the perpetual charter meant the FIA/FSTC could continue to offer 99- year leases and administer the Corporation under its own constitution and by-laws. (This would happen in 1904 and the Colony would change its name to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in the process.) From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Courier Collection. |
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1903 |
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