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1. 1897_Courier - Newspaper

   Fairhope Courier newspapers published in the year 1897. The paper was a monthly at the time and all twelve editions printed in 1897 are included. Some volume and issue numbers were printed in error and have been hand corrected by someone long ago. Six editions are four pages; six editions are eight pages. These historic newspapers are scanned using Opitcal Character Recognition (OCR) in pdf format and are keyword searchable using the 'find'...

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2. 37_2_023 - Letter

   Note from Charles Foord dated c. September 1896 and written on a request for constitutional change by Fairhope Industrial Association members who are not satisfied with the management of the Fairhope Colony. Foord is requesting E. B. Gaston to tell him (Foord) what Gaston thinks about the letter. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives,

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3. ii.6.34-35 - Postcard

   Postcard dated 04/18/1894 to E. B. Gaston from Henry C. Hanson of Gothenburg, Nebraska. Hanson has received the Liberty Bell newspapers sent by Gaston and has criticisms about the organization of the proposed colony.

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4. iii.10.26-27 - Letter

   Letter dated 12/26/1896 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellangee in Des Moines, Iowa. Bellangee is commenting on some letters he has received from S. Howard Leech, Mr. Young, and "Van." He comments on a letter Van sent to Young in which Van "raved and swore about the people of Fairhope but said the climate and country was all right." Bellangee writes about wanting to come to Fairhope and his interest in the the school and how he might want to h...

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5. iii.2.107-109 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on January 26, ?? from James Beison, Scottsboro, Alabama. His Courier has stopped. He has been a reformer for 20 years and believes in cooperation. He believes in the government owning and operating R.R., telegraphs, telephones, etc. He tells Gaston his single tax experiment will fail because it is based on a false hypothesis. Land should and must be as free as air and water. He tells Gaston that his plan plac...

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6. iii.2.86-87 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston on February 5, 1895 from W. E. Brokaw, editor of th Single Tax Courier asking questions about developments in Fairhope that he has heard about. He has heard that Dellgren has rented a place outside the colony and will not join and that C. B. Power has left because he feels that Gaston misrepresented funds. He agrees with Norton that a complete application of the single tax by the colony would be impossible but that ...

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