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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 3.9.64 - Letter

   Undated draft of letter (likely 1935) sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with copies to Alabama Senator Hugo Black and Alabama Representative Lister Hill (later senator) from E. B. Gaston. Gaston says the single tax colony established as Fairhope in south Alabama is an example of FDR's call for a "wider distribution of wealth." Gaston commends FDR's support of the Tennessee Valley Authority (founded 1933). Gaston, writing for the...

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