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  1. 1.10.105-106 - Legal Documents

    James Bellangee's copy of a subpoena for Melville vs Fairhope Single Tax Corporation suit dated 5/4/1914 including names of others summoned to appear.

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    1.10.105-106
  2. 1.10.108-116 - Letter

    Undated letter to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee in reference to incurring debt for the water works system. Bellangee thinks that to show an effective demonstration of the Single Tax they should adhere more strictly to its principles by waiting until there is a sufficient accumulation of land values to provide services rather and not complicate nor mar the demonstration by other devices (such as taking on debt). He thinks that by deferring wan...

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    1.10.108-116
  3. 1.10.117-122 - Letter

    Letter dated 10/6/1907 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellagee. This is a long letter and it is difficult to decipher where it starts and ends, it may be a draft. Mr. Bellangee is expressing discontent over Gaston's handling of the Fairhope Courier. He says that as editor of the Fairhope Courier Gaston has weight and influence with the outside world and that greater circumspection must be used in the future. "We can all pull together for affirmative...

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    1.10.117
  4. 1.10.123-124 - Letter

    Undated, unsigned letter to E. B. Gaston, editor of the Fairhope Courier critical of one of his publications.

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    1.10.123-124
  5. 1.10.129-133 - Letter

    Undated letter to the editor (likely of the Single Tax Review) authored by James Bellangee. Bellangee is responding to the editorial published by this paper in which is printed "the semblance of personality is unavoidable" in the discussion of the troubles in Fairhope. Bellangee agrees with that comment and says the "true story of Fairhope's troubles cannot be told without full recognition of a degree of human weakness and folly that will sh...

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    1.10.129-133
  6. 1.10.140 - Note

    Back side of folder containing James Bellangee's papers concerning a 1905 amendment to the Fairhope Single Tax Constitution and the contentious publication of the issue. Note says "came to personal blows." E. Q. Norton of the Daphne Standard newspaper E. B. Gaston of the Fairhope Courier newspaper James Bellangee Mobile Daily Times newspaper Unknown who wrote this note on the file folder or when.

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    1.10.140
  7. 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...

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    1.10.4-7
  8. 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...

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    1.10.59-63
  9. 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.

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  10. 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).

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  11. 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...

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    1.10.69-72
  12. 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...

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    1.10.80
  13. 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...

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    1.10.8-11
  14. 1.10.81-82 - Letter

    Letter dated 11/12/1907 to Louis Post in Chicago, Illinois from James Bellangee in Fairhope, Alabama. Bellangee is writing about the upcoming Single Tax Conference and the likelihood that two parties from Fairhope will attend the conference. Bellangee is concerned about airing Fairhope's problems in this forum, and feels neither party represents "the common people of Fairhope." Bellangee describes the men who plan to attend the conference by...

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    1.10.81-82
  15. 1.10.87 - Letter

    Likely draft of a letter to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee, no date. Bellangee is probably responding to an article and subsequent letters written by Mr. A. J. Wolf and Gaston and published in the Daphne Standard newspaper. In this letter Bellangee admonishes Gaston to allow others to have opinions, as is their right in a democracy. He employes a racial salutation of "Suh" to address Gaston and says "I believe (that) is the lowest rank ...

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  16. 1.10.89 - Letter

    LIkely a draft of a letter (no date) to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee in which the argument between the two is escalating. It centers around an article which was published about Fairhope and Bellangee's response to the article. In this letter Bellangee wants Gaston to refrain from printing related articles in the Fairhope Courier newspaper because he feels such publication are "not working affirmatively for the Single Tax and for Fairho...

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  17. 1.10.90 - Flyer

    Flyer dated 7/16/1913 by E. B. Gaston in which he extends James Bellangee an apology and his great regret for publishing in the Fairhope Courier newspaper incorrect information about Bellangee's position on Fairhope Single Tax Corporation constitutional changes. This was likely posted on a public billboard.

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    1.10.90
  18. 1.10.92 - Letter

    Letter dated 7/16/1913 to James Bellangee from E. B. Gaston. Gaston is responding to Bellangee in which the latter has protested about actions taken by Gaston and items printed in the Fairhope Courier newspaper, and in which Bellangee innumerates Gaston's faults. Gaston has posted a retraction on the community bulletin board (see 1.10.90) and tells Bellangee, that whatever his weaknesses, he is committed to working for Fairhope and the Single T...

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    1.10.92
  19. 1.11.11-14 - Letter

    Letter written to E. Q. Norton of Daphne, Alabama from Anne B. Call on January 3, 1905. She states the reasons she withdrew her advertising in the Times and gave it to the Standard stating they had never ageed on the refunding of personal property tax, but she considered him entitled to his opinion and free expression of his opinions. Mr. Norton seems to have objected to the "Fairhope Plan" and had been frequent in saying this to others.. ...

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    1.11.11-14
  20. 1.11.38 - Letter

    Form letter dated 7/19/1906 to William Call and Wife (i.e. Anne Bellangee Call) from E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, notifying them of a special election called for 7/23/1906. The election has two propositions regarding assuming debt for public services and electing a board of Water Trustees to administer the water system. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Call.

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    1.11.38

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