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  1. 12.9.1-84 - Invoice

    Telephone bill for the Fairhope Wharf Warehouse and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation offices from Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1930-1947.

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  2. 1901_Courier - Newspaper

    Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1901. The paper was published twice per month on the 1st and 15th. All 24 editions are in this and are 8 pages except for the February 1st paper which is 6 pages. These historic papers are scanned using Optical Character Recongnition (OCR) in pdf format and are keyword searchable using the "find" or "search" function in your browser. 1901 is the year the Fairhope I bay boat steamer was constructed on the...

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  3. v.1.10-11 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/19/1900 to E. B. Gaston from C. P. Baldwin in Chicago. Baldwin is affiliated with Progress Telephone Company and wants to install telephones in Baldwin County. He wants Gaston to send him the names of two men in several Baldwin communities to serve as business contacts for him.

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    v.i.10-11
  4. v.1.12-13 - Letter

    Letter (date obscured by water damage but likely February 1900) to E. B. Gaston from C. P. Baldwin in Chicago, Illinois. Baldwin is in the telephone business, has land in River Park in Baldwin County, and plans to establish telephones in several Baldwin County towns. He understands, that under Fairhope Industrial Association rules, the telephone company will be owned by the FIA, not a private company, however he offers his services to assist in...

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    v.1.12-13
  5. v.3.27 - Letter

    Undated letter to W. H. Bryant, Manager of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile, Alabama from S. A. Duncan representing an unnamed business. The letter discusses using telephone poles owned by the correspondent's company.

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    v.3.27
  6. v.3.35 - Letter

    Letter with no date (likely later 1898 or early 1899) to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fels has read about the appeal for donations for a library building and for telephone service for Fairhope in the Fairhope Courier newspaper. He wants to hear more about these projects from Gaston, and plans to come to Fairhope to visit or send his brother in his place. In the meantime, Fels urges that "the books ought not to b...

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    v.3.35
  7. v.3.39 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/25/1899 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fels has received a long letter from Marie Howland (he calls her "Mary") and Fels wants to pay for shelving and other library supplies that will "bring these books into immediate use in the community." He thinks Howland's library is "more ambitious" than usual for a colony library but is very supportive. Fels asks Gaston to turn his membership over to Mi...

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    v.3.39
  8. vi.10.42 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/31/1908 to E. B. Gaston from John P. Lowell in Mobile, Alabama. Lowell is writing about the telephone box Gaston let go out of his possession without receiving any pay for it. It belonged to Mrs. D. M. Turner who expects Gaston to pay for it or get it back. (See vi.8.26-28)

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    vi.10.42
  9. vi.12.53-55 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/2/1908 to E. B. Gaston from Mrs. D. McRae Turner in Calvert, Alabama. Mrs. Turner wants payment for the telephone box which she says Gaston 'let go." She will let the matter drop if she received payment from the Mershon Merchandising Company, otherwise she will "take steps in the matter."

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    vi.12.53-55
  10. vi.1.29 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/10/1906 to E. B. Gaston from W. H. Bryant, vice-president and general manager of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile, Alabama. Gaston has written Bryant about doing business in Fairhope, and Bryant is thinking the matter over and wants to come to Fairhope and talk with Gaston about this.

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    vi.1.29
  11. vi.1.30 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/15/1906 to E. B. Gaston from W. H. Bryant, vice-president and general manager of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile, Alabama. Gaston has sent him a list of subscribers to the Fairhope Telephone System, and Bryant is authorizing the connection of these subscribers to the Home Telephone System so they can make toll calls to Mobile. He cautions Gaston to warn these people to be careful about who they let use their telephones, b...

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    vi.1.30
  12. vi.1.44-45 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/8/1906 to E. B. Gaston from G. A. Briggs, in Elkhart, Indiana, president of the Chicago Telephone Supply Company. Briggs is responding to Gaston who wants to buy telephone equipment on the installment plan. Briggs explains that he would be happy to consider the plan, however the equipment he sells is not compatible with the Clark Automatic equipment Gaston discussed. If he can help in any way, he will, though. He tells Gaston...

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    vi.1.44-45
  13. vi.1.46-48 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/3/1906 to E. B. Gaston from G. A. Briggs, of Elkhart, Indiana, president of the Chicago Telephone Supply Company continuing his correspondence. Briggs tells Gaston that the plan Gaston has proposed putting Chicago Telephones on consignement for Fairhope does not interest him, but that he will offer Gaston a 12% discount on another model (the Chicago Bridging Telephone). Sims enloses a copy of the company's Guarantee Bond for Gas...

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    vi.1.46-48
  14. vi.1.49-51 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/19/1906 to E. B. Gaston form G. A. Briggs in Elkhart, Indiana, president of the Chicago Telephone Supply Company. He asks Gaston to ignore the recent letter under his signature; he has been away from the office, and the correspondence department answered the letter without knowing the previous letters between Gaston and himself. He is shipping six telephones to Fairhope, with "the understanding that you will remit for them as...

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    vi.1.49-51
  15. vi.6.99-101 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/13/1908 with accompanying brochure sent to E. B. Gaston from G. A. Briggs, president of the Chicago Telephone Supply Company. Briggs is responding to Gaston's inquiry about a specific style of telephones. He hopes Gaston will place an order.

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    vi.6.99-101
  16. vi.8.26-28 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/3/1908 to Mrs. D. M. Turner from E. B. Gaston about a controversy with a telephone, and subsequent indebtedness she owes the Mershon Brothers store. Gaston says he acted in her best interest in the matter, and feels he owes nothing.

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    vi.8.26-28
  17. vi.8.92 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/25/1908 to E. B. Gaston from W. H. Bryant of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile, Alabama. Bryant has received $10 ead for Mrs. Lydia Comings and Dr. Harris Greeno's telephones, and $3 to be credited on the toll bill. That leaves a balance of $11 owed (for Mrs. Williams' phone and the toll bill).

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    vi.8.92
  18. viii.10.3 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/8/1913 to E. B Gaston from William Gomms in Ft. Myers, Florida who is sending money to buy a bond in the People's Railroad Company. He says he is trying to interest some wealthy friends in the Railroad project. He wants to have a telephone installed in his house in Fairhope and wants Gaston to see to it that the poles and wires are put in by the time he returns.

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    viii.10.3

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