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  1. 1.11.7-8 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper. 3/12/1923 edition written by Anne B. Call. Mrs. Call is addressing the situation with the People's Railroad Company (P. R. R.) and the Wharf. Mrs. Calls says the revenues from the Wharf have kept the P.R.R. afloat for ten years, and she is opposed to that continuing when Fairhope needs to invest in roads, not rails. She opposes the resumption of "up-town service" from the wharf to downtow...

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  2. 1.12.11 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper dated 5/16/1921 from Anne B. Call, requesting the People's Railroad Company to "outline to the public what steps they intend to take to take the Railroad really safe for public travel and when such steps may be expected to be completed." She asks for the response to be printed in the newspaper. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call

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  3. 1.12.40-48 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor from Anne B. Call discussing the current status of the People's Railroad. Call discusses safety issues, the current condition of the railroad, her correspondence with the Alabama Public Service Commission, her investigation about the possibilities of securing liability insurance and workman's compensation insurance, actual usefulness of the small car service as opposed the benefits of a larger car/cargo carrier, her disagree...

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  4. 1.12.50-52 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the Editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper dated 3/26/1923 from Anne B. Call. She has previously written a long letter to the paper about the status of the People's Railroad. Mr. E. B. Gaston has responded, and Mrs. Call is responding to him. Call says she feels the administration of the financially troubled railroad should not be reassumed by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation because she sees no way it can be successful and will ...

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  5. 1.12.54 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/27/1923 to E. B. Gaston from Anne B. Call. Both individuals have been engaged in a back and forth via the pages of the Fairhope Courier newspaper discussing the future of the People's Railroad Company, and Call is really to call it quits if Gaston ceases also. However, she clear the board with comments about what she considers to be Gaston's misunderstanding of her letters. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call.

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  6. 1.13.37-42 - Letter to the Editor

    Undated letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper, written by Anne Bellangee Call. She introduces her letter by saying a tourist has asked her questions about the Fairhope Colony, and Call wants to clear up errors and misconceptions about the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. She gives a brief history of the founding for Fairhope, and discusses single tax principles, how they are demonstrated locally, how the Colony is chartered i...

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  7. 1.13.48-49 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper dated 5/3/1926 from Anne Bellangee Call. Call is writing in support of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and its community projects, and expresses her concern about the rumors that local problems (e. g. lack of adequate water and light services) are due to the FSTC. Call explains it is the Town of Fairhope's responsibility to provide these services and that the FSTC has and will continue t...

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  8. 1.13.50 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper dated 7/12/1926 from Anne Bellangee Call in support of the single tax and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. She reports that she hears remarked that Fairhope would be "all right if it were not for the Single Tax." Call discusses the current issue at hand - street improvements, which are the responsibility of the Town of Fairhope, not the FSTC She says a Town representative recently repo...

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  9. 1.13.51 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper dated 10/12/1926 from Anne Bellangee Call reflecting on the upsoming mayoral elections. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call

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  10. 1.13.53-55 - Letter to the Editor

    Undated letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper from Anne Bellangee Call addressing why leaseholders should not charge the amount of rent they have paid to the Colony in the improvement purchase price when transferring their leaseholds. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call

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  11. 1.13.57 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper from Anne Bellangee Call explaining why "persons who transfer leasholds on Colony land should not charge enough to cover the rent they have paid the Colony." This is a duplicate of 1.13.53-55, but this is a newspaper clipping. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call

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  12. 1.13.57 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper from Anne Bellangee Call explaining why "persons who transfer leasholds on Colony land should not charge enough to cover the rent they have paid the Colony." This is a duplicate of 1.13.53-55, but this is a newspaper clipping. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call

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  13. 1.15.12 - Meeting Minutes

    Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Council meeting minutes printed in the Fairhope Courier newspaper dated 3/18/1930 and reporting general FSTC business. Motion to authorize the president and secretary to inspect, with the Town of Fairhope officials, the sewage disposal plants in Moultrie and Donaldsonville, Georgia. Clippings include a letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper from a Winter Resident objecting to building a ball f...

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  14. 1.15.15 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper from Anne B. Call concerning the ball park being constructed on the beach. She is stating her opposition to the ball park and the "slaughter of natural beauty" which has taken place.

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  15. 2.6.1-99 - Letter

    Fairhope Courier newspaper correspondence for 1926 (D-L) including advertisements, billing for ads, newspaper clippings and general business-related correspondence for the paper. Item 2.6.68 is a letter to the editor from Bolton Hall in New York City, dated 5/10/1926, deploring the current British General Strike.

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  16. 2.7.1-53 - Letter

    Fairhope Courier newspaper correspondence for 1926 (M-O). Includes correspondence about advertising, ad copy, newspaper clippings and general correspondence for the newspaper.

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  17. 3.5.74-75 - Postcard

    Postcard dated 12/3/1935 to the editor of the Fairhope Courier newspaper, E. B. Gaston from Bolton Hall in New York City stating his puzzlement on Gaston's support of the poll tax. Hall has read this in the Fairhope Courier, and says the poll tax is against Henry George's teachings. A poem titled "Mary's Little Land" is printed on the back of this postcard promoting the single tax. First verse: Mary had a little land, It was a vacant lot...

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  18. 5.11.1-203 - Letter

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, Letter 'R," 1935-1953. 5.11.143-159 includes correspondence with FDR, Cordele Hull and Lister Hill.

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  19. vi.12.5 - Letter to the Editor

    Letter dated 8/8/1908 to E. B. Gaston from S.M. Savery in which he alleges to have been misrepresented by the Fairhope Courier.

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  20. vi.7.68 - Letter

    Letter dated 10/16/1908 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels, in London, England, who is writing on several issues. Fels wants 100 copies of the Fairhope booklets and cover letters encouraging Fairhope Courier newspaper subscribers. He was glad to see Frank Stephens' letter printed in the Fairhope Courier. Fels is still concerned about the resolution of the lawsuit against him and the Colony about money owed for repairs on the old Fairhope I ...

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