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10.9.1-108 - Correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1969-1984. Includes membership in Rent Study committees for several years, meeting minutes of the Rent Study Committee and the Executive Council, correspondence to lessees about reappraisals, correspondence about the Bay Meadows subdivision, and detailed data about how rents are calculated and have been calculated historically in the FSTC.
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1.12.10 - Letter
Letter dated 5/4/1923 from the Alabama Public Service Commission in Montgomery, Alabama postpoining a hearing against the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The complaint is "why you should not be required to maintain the wharves and pier at Fairhope in good operating condition and with due regard to public safety." From the correspondence of Anne B. Call
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1.12.24 - Letter
Undated letter likely 1921 to the Execultive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from members of the Fairhope community. The letter is written on Town of Fairhope letterhead and requests the FSTC to make the People's Railroad Company safe and to restart deliveries. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call.
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1.12.25 - Meeting Minutes
Excerpt from Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 10/3/1922. An agreement has been negotiated between the People's Railroad Company and the Fairhope Transportation & Excursion Comany (owners of the Bay Queen steamer) to extend the pierhead by up to 75 feet to be paid by the steamer company. The PRR will repay them, and the FSTC will assume the debt if the former cannot pay, or if ownership of the Wharf is transferred ba...
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1.12.31 - Letter
Letter dated 2/23/1923 to the Alabama Public Service Commission from Anne B. Call. Call is asking the Commission to provide an inspection of the railroad before it is put back into service. She gives background on the PRR, and discusses its relationship to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, of which she is a member of the board. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call
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1.12.35 - Letter
Notice of hearing dated 4/16/1923 from the Alabama Public Service Commission against the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The complaint involves safety issues with the Fairhope Wharf. The issue will be heard on 5/8/1923 in Montgomery, Alabama. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call
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1.12.36 - Letter
Leter dated 2/27/1923 to Anne B. Call from Thames & Batre, and insurance company in Mobile, Alabama. The company is responding to Call's request for information about securing workman's compensation and liability insurance on the People's Railroad. They have not been successful in finding coverage. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call
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1.12.39 - Letter
Undated letter, likely 1923, to Anne B. Call from P. A. Parker who has inspected the condition and safety of the People's Railroad. He declares it unsafe, and has colorful commentary about the railroad as well as the Fairhope Plan. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call
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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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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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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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1.12.6 - Letter
Unsigned and undated letter to E. B. Gaston, likely from Anne B. Call written in 1921 requesting a referendum election of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to be held Saturday, 5/7/1921. The referendum asks if the contract between the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and the People's Railroad Company should be forfeited, and the PRR right to use the Fairhope Wharf be withdrawn. The letter refers to a list of signators of the peititon, of which...
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1.12.69-70 - Legal Documents
Agreement made on 10/12/1921 between the Fairhope Transportation and Excursion Company and the Peoples Railroad Company and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for an extention to the wharf to be built at the expense of the Fairhope Transportation and Excursion Company and paid back by the Peoples Railroad Company, with no interest, as soon as may be don from the earnings of the wharf.
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1.12.8-9 - Letter
Unsigned letter dated 5/3/1921 to E. B .Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and likely written Anne B. Call, requesting he prepare ballots and election notices for the upcoming referendum election on 5/7/1921. The issue at hand is the control of the Fairhope Wharf, currently under the People's Railroad Company, and whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation should regain control of the Wharf since the PRR has not fulfilled...
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1.13.34-35 - Letter
Undated letter to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding an upcoming referendum to change the membership application back to the "one which was in use for so long" rather than the one currently in use which is "so distasteful to everyone and so injurious to our progress and prosperity." From the correspondence of Anne B. Call
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1.13.36 - Membership Documents
Undated membership appliction for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation written on Pinequat Shop letterhead. (This application likely is in reference to the referendum election discussed in 1.13.34-35.) From the correspondence of Anne B. Call
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1.13.43-45 - Reports
Unsigned Report of the three Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, addressed to the members, likely written by Anne Bellagee Call in 1926 or early 1927. (E.B. Gaston's trip to Copenhagen in summer 1926 is referenced in the letter as a recent event.) The Trustees approve of the measures the FSTC Executive Council has recently taken to "stop the wave of (land) speculation that has menaced us." The Trustees warn that the Corporatio...
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1.13.56 - Newspaper Article
Letter to the editor of the Mobile Register newspaper dated 7/14/1927 (newspaper clipping) from William Call titled "Fairhope K.K.K. Parade." Call is responding to "adverse criticism of Fairhope regarding the Ku Klux Klan parade and exercises" on July 4, 1927. The Klan was given permission to parade by the mayor of Fairhope. After learning of this, the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Executive Council passed a motion to disallow use of the...
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1.15.101-102 - Letter
Letter dated 5/29/1931 to Mrs. Robinson from Anne Bellangee Call discussing the matters of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The FSTC "passed a resolution to deed the parks to the town" the previous evening without a vote of the members and without an amendment to the constitution allowing such. Call fears the worst - that this starts movement towards dissolution of the Colony. Futher she believes the current mayor of Fairhope is actively ...
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1.15.4 - Article
Article torn from a book or magazine hand-dated 1930, written by Alex J. Melville, critical of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and its method of setting rents and assessing land values.
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