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1. 1.6.107-111 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated February 3, 1896 of the Fairhope Industrial Association. All members were present and last meeting minutes were approved. Monthly reports from Secretary, Treasurer and Wharfinger were presented and referred to Auditing Committee. Reports attached. George Pollay of committee appointed to submit a plan for laying off land north of Schalkenback, reported and presented 2 plans. Applications of C. E. Atkinson and L....

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2. ii.1.24-26 - Letter

   Continuing correspondence dated 6/27/1894 from Gilbert Anderson to E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Organization, Des Moines, Iowa. Anderson, who lives at the YMCA in St. Louis, Missouri, is enclosing an application for membership in the FIA and and a money order for $20.50 - $20 for four months payment of the membership fee and $.50 for a year's subscription to the Libery Bell newspaper. Anderson says he likes the "general ...

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3. ii.8.98 - Letter

   Letter dated 08/20/1894 to the Liberty Bell from J. A. Long of Findlay, Iowa. He wants a copy of the By-Laws of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Further, he asks is he can work his way in to the FIA, leaving part of his wages for membership fees. He is a carpenter.

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4. 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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5. iv.3.22-23 - Letter

   Letter with no date from C. Gerhard in Detroit Michigan. He has sent $.25 to Mr. Belangee in Des Moines asking for the July 1 edition of the Fairhope Courier newspaper because he thought he would get it faster than if it came from Fairhope. He wants that issue corrected, and he has questions about becoming a non-resident member of the Fairhope Industrial Association.

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6. iv.3.2-3 - Letter

   Letter dated 7/24/1897 to E. B. Gaston from Elisa Gaillard of Mobile. She is interested in the Fairhope Colony and is considering membership, although the high membership fee is discouraging her. Her father was a "genuine single taxer" and she has long knowledge of the movement. Because the bay boat schedule does not offer return passage to Mobile the same day, she will wait to visit Fairhope until her brother can bring her in his boat.

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7. iv.3.56 - Letter

   Letter dated 4/5/1897 to E. B. Gaston from Thas. J. Hastings, President of the Worcester Single Tax Club. This is a letter of recommendation for Precott A. Parker.

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8. iv.4.25 - Letter

   Letter dated 5/7/1897 from George B. Lang in Rosenberg, Texas asking for his paid up certificate for the Fairhope Industrial Association. He says he is glad to know things are going well in Fairhope.

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9. PMG-4430-4447 - Research Notes

   Research notes of Dr. Paul M. Gaston. He has transcribed information from original meeting minutes and the Fairhope Courier about meeting attendance, FIA membership and membership certificate holdings and other similar information about early business of the Fairhope Industrial Association. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

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10. v.8.36 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston from A. White of Vallejo,California. He has decided to take a paid up membership in the Association and apply the additional $100 to the Water Works. He hopes the interest of the Colony continues.

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