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1.2.112 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes dated 5/29/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Topics: C. L. Coleman and J. P. Hunnell were appointed to a committee for the Fourth of July Celebration. Scrip currently in drawer to be burn and replaced with cash.
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1.2.151-152 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated August 12, 1895. Executive Council Present: Mrs. Lamon, George Pollay, Jennie Pollay, J. P. Hunnel, C. L. Coleman, E. B. Gaston, Members Present: J. H. Springer, Mrs. Springer, H. C. C. Schakel C. L. Coleman, H. C. C. Schakel and J. H. Springer were appointed as a committee to check off and destroy scrip on hand. C. L. Coleman reported a depth of 85' reached in well and no wa...
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1.2.153-154 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated August 19, 1895. Executive Council Present: Mrs. Lamon, George Pollay, Jennie Pollay, E. B. Gaston, C. L. Coleman, Members Present: J. H. Springer and J. T. Kearns C. L. Coleman reported that the well was completed and suggested ordering a pump. C. L. Coleman reported that 209 out of an estimated 500 piles were in place for the wharf. Scrip Committee reported $50 of scrip b...
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1.2.94-99 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes dated 4/29/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Topics: Work on the well is progressing, having reached a depth of 40 feet to date. Secretary Gaston reported on his trip to Daphne to secure more land, requested a bid on setting type for the Courier, and testified in the case of J. B. Stapleton vs Mrs. Tatum. C. L. Coleman reported on the Colony store, and was granted approval to buy sto...
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1.6.84-87 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes dated 12/30/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association Many agenda items regarding wharf business, e.g. setting costs for leaving items (e.g. bricks and wire) on the Wharf, and including a report from Wharfinger H.C.C. Schakel. The Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of State of Iowa regarding the Association incorporation status and moving the charter to Alabama. Mr. Jno. Ettel was accept...
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17.1.190-191 - Scrip
Sample of Series A 1895 uncut Fairhope scrip in five cent, ten cent, twenty-five cent and fifty cent denominations. The archives contact scrip number 1001-1100; This sample was selected for its clarity.
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FSTC-0158 - Photograph, Digital
Presentation slide of four photographs with label of a wharf certificate, a Fairhope Industrial Association membership certificate stub, a $.25 Fairhope Industrail Assoication scrip (money) and a picture of the White Pier (built in 1910). From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FSTC-0468 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of a Series A 1895 $.25 cent paper scrip issued by the Fairhope Industrial Corporation. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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ii.2.46-49 - Letter
Letter dated 12/29/1894 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee in Des Moines, Iowa. There is an upcoming Fairhope Industrial Association election to replace officers who have resigned and offer amendments to the Constitution. Based on Bellangee's comments to Gaston, there is controversy in Fairhope about the qualifications of some of the candidates. Bellangee spends a bit of time offering words of support to Gaston. Additionally, Bellangee cha...
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ii.5.82-85 - Letter
Unsigned letter dated 07/27/1894 to E. B. Gaston. The writer has much experience in the business workings of the Freeland Colony and has a great deal to tell Gaston about the use of script. The writer also comments on the Topolobampo Colony, and is impressed with what he has read about how the Fairhope colony business will be conducted.
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ii.9.28 - Letter
Letter to S. S. Mann from Jas. McClung, Epworth, Iowa, dated 3/12/1894. He saw his name mentioned in the Liberty Bell in connection with the Fairhope Industrial Association. He wants particulars and makes two suggestions. One is regarding scrip in place of money and would it not be better to adopt The Bank Of Venice System. If he can dispose of some property, he would like to be counted in and possibly his son Burt.
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iii.2.34-35 - Letter
Letter dated 11/16/1894 to E. B. Gaston from James. Bellangee, Des Moines, Iowa. Bellangee is updating Gaston on scrip certificate books which he is sending to Gaston after a delay in printing. Further, his article about Fairhope has been printed. He says The Courier is in "good shape" and tells Gaston "everybody is inquiring about you." Part of this letter is torn away.
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iii.2.36-37 - Letter
Letter dated 11/23/1894 to E. B. Gaston, now in Battles, Alabama, from James Bellangee in Des Moines, Iowa. Bellangee is discussing the business of the Fairhope Colony with Gaston. Bellangee is preparing to print Fairhope scrip certificates (money), both paper and coins in Des Moines, and is discussing printing costs with Gaston. Bellangee is also resigning from the Fairhope Industrail Association council.
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iii.2.38-39 - Letter
Letter dated 11/24/1894 to E. B. Gaston in Battles, Alabama from James Bellangee in Des Moines, Iowa. Bellangee is urging Gaston to "keep this thing going." L. R. Clements, President of the Fairhope Industrial Association has resigned, and Bellangee is urging Gaston to hold an election and has even sent a sample ballott for Gaston to consider. Bellangee wants Gaston to write an article in the Fairhope Courier about Fairhope's "money scheme" (s...
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iii.2.40-41 - Letter
Letter dated 11/27/1894 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee of Des Moines, Iowa. Bellangee is working hard for the Fairhope Colony from Des Moines, and is overseeing the printing of Fairhope scrip certificates - Fairhope money. He is enclosing a proof of the ten dollar bill. He explains that there is no dollar sign or "anything which says dollar except in the body of the certificate so there can be no resemblance to money." Further, Bellan...
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iii.2.42-43 - Letter
Letter dated 12/4/1894 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee in Des Moines, Iowa. He is discussing question Gaston posed to him about the Colony Money - Fairhope scrip certificates. Bellangee asks Gaston to tell Hunnel, another Fairhope colonist something, but the letter has been torn.
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iii.2.44-45 - Letter
Letter dated 12/12/1894 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee in Des Moines Iowa. Bellangee continues to work for the establishment of Fairhope Colony and is overseeing the printing of Colony Money - the Fairhope Scrip Certificates. In this letter he includes samples and talks about color, tint, adjustments to the plate, etc. On a personal level Bellangee told Gaston he was worried since he had not received a letter lately. "I did not kno...
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iii.2.50-53 - Letter
Letter dated 1/12/1895 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee of Des Moines Iowa. Gaston is urging Bellangee to send the scrip plates, and Bellangee writes in detail why these engraved plates have taken so long to make. He says "I hope you people will be pleased with the scrip because it has been no end of trouble to me." In addition, Bellangee discusses how he has paid some of Alf Wooster's debts, in hope that Wooster can maintain his payments t...
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iii.2.54-55 - Letter
Letter dated 1/14/1895 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee in Des Moines, Iowa. Bellangee is writing on the back side of a real estate company's report of which he was secretary in 1890. He tells Gaston that he is sending some books of Fairhope Money - scrip - which has been signed by the Fairhope Industrial Association president L. R. Clements. Bellangee wants payment for the printing of the scrip.
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iii.3.22-25 - Letter
Letter written to E. B. Gaston on November 5, 1894 from George E. Chase of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania giving him a plan for a circulating medium or currency to be used in Fairhope.
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