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  1. 7.20.1-192 - Letter

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1955-1971, (C-D). Includes general correspondence of the Corporation. 7.20 4-5 and 7.20. 89 are cataloged separately and provide insights into Fairhope benefactor, Joseph Fels. 7.20 includes correspondence between C. A. Gaston and John R. Chadwick, who works at The Birmingham News. Chadwic, Gaston, and Frances Gaston Crawford are discussing the possible sale of the Fairhope Courier ...

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  2. 7.20.4-5 - Letter

    Correspondence dated September, 1995 initiated by George Cartwright of Modesto, California to Frances Gaston Crawford, but answered by C. A. Gaston. Cartwright writes of an incident he observed while waiting in (he did not give a date) Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Tom L. Johnson's outer office. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fels also happened to be there and Cartwright asked about the status of Fairhope. Cartwright writes of Fels' response: "fine, they...

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    7.20.4-5
  3. PMG-2049 - Photograph, Digital

    Picture of Daniel Kiefer, Chairman of the Fels Fund Commission. Published in the July-August 1910 edition of the Single Tax Reveiw. To read the biography of Kiefer in which this photograph appears, see PMG_8851_8856. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  4. PMG_8827_8832 - Letter to the Editor

    Letters published in the Single Tax Review journal Summer 1905 (July 15, 1905) edition in response to an article written by E. Q. Norton about The Fairhope Controversy (keyword search "Fairhope Controversy" for other intormation). Includes letters to the editor from: E. B. Gaston Daniel Kiefer F. F. Ingram J. J. Pastoriza George W. Wood A. G. Chapman Frances M. Milne S. Danzigler. A long response from the Editor of the Single Tax Re...

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  5. PMG_8851_8856 - Biography

    Biography of Daniel Kiefer, published in the July-August 1910 edition of the Single Tax Review. Includes a formal picture of Kiefer. Kiefer was chair of the (Joseph) Fels Fund Commission and a supporter of the Single Tax Colony in Fairhope, Alabama. Use keyword search "Kiefer" in these online Archives for other letters and references about Daniel Kiefer and his relationship with the Single Tax Colony of Fairhope, Alabama. From the Paul...

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  6. vi.11.25-26 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/23/1908 to Joseph Fels in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Louis Post, editor of The Public newspaper in Chicago, Illinois. Post is responding to Fels' request to publish a letter-to-the-editor he has written and wants published in The Public. Post is exasperated with continued requests to publish favorable articles/letters about the Fairhope Colony, saying he has been overwhelmed with requests to publish the "other side" when...

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    vi.11.25-26
  7. vi.11.29 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/23/1908 to Daniel Kiefer in Fairhope from Louis Post, editor of The Public newspaper in Chicago, Illinois. Kiefer has asked Post to publish an article about Fairhope authored by Mr. Ring, and Post tells him he "could not possibly publish" it. Joseph Fels also wants this published. Post will not publish it.

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    vi.11.29
  8. vi.11.31-32 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/23/1908 to E. B. Gaston from Louis F. Post, editor of The Public newpaper in Chicago, Illinois. Post is rejecting Ring's manuscript and Fels letter for publication in The Public. He says that it is an embarrassment to continually turn down these requests from Kiefer and Fels and that he appreciates the fact that Gaston has not tried to solicit or pressure him into getting involved in the controversy against him.

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    vi.11.31-32
  9. vi.12.96-97 - Letter

    Undated letter (but likely mid-1908) to Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio from A. J. Wolf in Fairhope, Alabama, responding to Kiefer's letter. Wolf says Kiefer's letter contains wrong information about the recently-completed election of May, 1908 in which Dr. Harris Greeno won the office of mayor over his opponent, E. B. Gaston. Wolf says Kiefer is wrong about the status of support for Gaston and the singe-taxers, and that he has been "hoodwink...

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    vi.12.96-97
  10. vi.12.98 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/7/1908 to Louis Post, editor of The Public newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, from A. J. Wolf in Fairhope, Alabama. Wolf commends Post for the stand he has taken to not publish any articles about Fairhope. Wolf says the controversy in Fairhope needs to be settled "among ourselves" without interference from others outside the Colony. Wolf comments on Daniel Kiefer, who contributes articles to The Public, and says he is leaving Fair...

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    vi.12.98
  11. vi.2.18 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/16/1906 to E. B .Gaston from Joseph Fels of Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Fels is writing from London, England. Fels wants Gaston to intercede with some work Fels wants completed with a Fairhope businessman. Fels wants C. E. Littlefield, who owns the Littlefield Artificial Stone Works in Fairhope, to make him a set of duplicate molds of the ones he uses for his blocks. Fels thinks these blocks would assist him with the work he i...

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    vi.2.18
  12. vi.2.22 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/16/1906 to Daniel Kiefer in Chicago, Illinois from Joseph Fels of Philadelphia. Fels is writing from London, England. Fels has received some circulars which Kiefer sent. They arrived with postage due and Fels says "this kind of a damn thing makes me madder than a wet hen!" But he is sending Kiefer a check for $20 for the Bigelow Press Bureau, and suggests Kiefer encourage Bigelow to give some lectures on Fairhope. He says R. ...

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    vi.2.22
  13. vi.2.28-29 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/5/1906 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels. Fels is writing from England where he is doing land reform work. He tells Gaston that he hopes Mr. Freeman's scheme to develop a farm, a "Garden of Eden," gets funded by Mr. Nelson because then the agriculatural journals will take notice of Fairhope.. He asks if Bolton Hall and Peter Kiefer have visited Fairhope, and asks Gaston if he won the election for the secretary position in th...

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    vi.2.28-29
  14. vi.3.34-35 - Letter

    Letter dated 11/25/1906 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer asking him to put an advertising for "the bureau" in the Fairhope Courier. (Daniel Kiefer is the manager of the Bigelow Press Bureau in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is a weekly address by Herbert S. Bigelow for Single Taxers).

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    vi.3.34-35
  15. vi.3.36-38 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/21/1905 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer enclosing a copy of a letter he has written to E. Q. Norton dated 6/16/1905. The letter written to E. Q. Norton refers to some controversy in Fairhope. Mr. Kiefer mentions an article written in the Single Tax Review by Joseph Dana Miller which he feels was too one sided to be fair. He asks Norton to be more specific about his dissatisfation with Fairhope and to describe his grievances and ...

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    vi.3.36-38
  16. vi.3.39 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/13/1906 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer of Cincinnati, Ohio who is trying to coordinate visits to Fairhope by Steffens, Johnson and Bolton Hall. He asks about Brink, Patton and Mr. Wolf whom he assumes is a new member of the Fairhope Colony since he is making such extensive investments there.

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    vi.3.39
  17. vi.3.40-41 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/28/1906 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer of Cincinnati, Ohio about some controversy in Fairhope. He says that L. F. Post (The Public newspaper) had gotten letters from people in Fairhope on various sides of the question, which he has answered. Kiefer agrees with Gaston as to the folly of L. S. Dickey's (The Public newspaper) suggestion that a board of absentees with a national reputation as Single Taxers be the final authority i...

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    vi.3.40-41
  18. vi.5.34-37 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/10/1906 to E. B. Gaston from M. V. Watros saying that he is not sure whether or not he wants the hotel. He will install an Ice Plant, but this is confidential. He encloses a letter from Daniel Kiefer but asks Gaston not to publish it because it will show Kiefer in the wrong light. He says that Fairhope is a "Comer." He wishes that Fairhopers could show Joseph Fels how highly his good works are appreciated. He thinks Fels-Naptha soa...

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    vi.5.34-37
  19. vi.5.43-45 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/15/1906 to Daniel Kiefer from Alfred J. Wolf who expressing his concerns about the Fairhope Single Tax Colony. He feels that the Fairhope Colony is cut off in a business sense, the steamboat companies do not run there frequently enough and have raised their freight rates. He feels that in order for the businesses in Fairhope to be a success they need to have direct communication with Mobile and reasonalble freight rates. He...

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    vi.5.43-45
  20. vi.6.119-122 - Letter

    Unsigned letter dated 11/6/1907 to the editor of the Daphne Standard newspaper in Daphne, Alabama (E. Q. Norton). The newspaper published letters to the editor about from E. B. Gaston and Daniel Kiefer about the sucess and status of Fairhope. The newspaper then published a negative article about the Colony. This letter is a detailed response to the criticisms, both from a single tax policy/principle perspective as well from detailed informatio...

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    vi.6.119-122

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