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1. 43_05_001 - Note

   Note describing the annual costs of farming 100 acres under the Fairhope Plan (single tax land) compared to deeded land. The writer, (probably T. E. Mann or S. S. Mann) details the savings in capital and overhead under the Fairhope Plan. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Mann Collection, courtesy of Alison Holt Knight.

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2. vi.11.19-20 - Letter

   Letter dated 10/2/1907 to E. B. Gaston from A. C. Pleydell in New York. Pleydell, a single taxer, is responding to Gaston's letter asking for his support in the Wolf-Norton-Daphne Standard criticism of the Fairhope Plan. Pleydell says he supports Gaston and Fairhope, and has already written letters for both the Fairhope Courier newspaper and the Daphne Standard to that effect, and does not feel additional letters are needed. He says "I am afra...

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3. vi.12.96-97 - Letter

   Undated letter (but likely mid-1908) to Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio from A. J. Wolf in Fairhope, Alabama, responding to Kiefer's letter. Wolf says Kiefer's letter contains wrong information about the recently-completed election of May, 1908 in which Dr. Harris Greeno won the office of mayor over his opponent, E. B. Gaston. Wolf says Kiefer is wrong about the status of support for Gaston and the singe-taxers, and that he has been "hoodwink...

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4. vi.1.59-62 - Letter

   Letter dated 6/16/1906 to E. B. Gaston from Thomas P. Craig in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is enclosing money for a Fairhope Courier newspaper subscription for George H. Sinton, and he wants Gaston to use the rest to send a blueprint of colony lands and Fairhope booklets to him. Craig has visited Fairhope and hopes the Colony will have an electric light plant soon. He notes that the Salvation Army has several colonies in Canada and th...

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5. vi.9.13 - Letter

   Letter dated 9/18/1907 to E. Q. Norton, editor of the Daphne Standard newspaper in Daphne, Alabama, from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiefer is responding to Norton's article objecting to how the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation handles the land tax issue. Kiefer says Norton's position does not adhere to single tax principles and that Norton should not call himself a single taxer. Kiefer says "I confess utter inability to see any ex...

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6. vi.9.17 - Letter

   Letter dated 9/25/1907 to Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio from E. Q. Norton, in Daphne, Alabama. Norton is the editor of the Daphne Standard newspaper and has had correspondence from Kiefer about an article Norton wrote about Fairhope. Norton objects to Kiefer questioning his sincerity,and says that though they may disagree, Kiefer has no right say Norton is not sincere. Norton says that Kiefer does not know the true state of affairs in Fa...

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7. vi.9.18 - Letter

   Letter dated 10/9/1907 to E. Q. Norton, editor of the Daphne Standard newspaper in Daphne, Alabama, from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiefer is continuing correspondence with Norton about Norton's article in the Daphne Standard newspaper objecting to the Fairhope Plan. Kiefer states that Norton, which claiming to be a single-taxer, is actually supporting anti-single tax policy in his article.

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8. vii.5.6 - Letter

   Letter dated 1/25/1909 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fred Miller has written Kiefer complimenting the Fairhope plan. Kiefer sent the letter to Louis Post, an influential single taxer who has refused to print anything positive about Fairhope, believing it strays from pure single tax principles. Miller says "I have always held.....that the complaints of undemocratic government had no basis whatever as criticisms of...

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9. vii.5.8 - Letter

   Letter dated 2/1/1909 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiefer is quoting from a letter he has received from Louis Post. Post has been critical of Fairhope in the past, but in his letter to Kiefer, says otherwise. He says while he does not believe in the colony method, he does not object to those who do believe in it. Cataloger's note: There are several Post letters in this archives collection, reflecting on his op...

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