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  1. 40_19_001-40_20_001 - Ticket

    Peoples Railroad Company bond certificates (front and back, and not cut) issued for April 1914, October 1914 and April 1915. These bonds were received as payment on Fairhope Single Tax Corporation membership dues. The PRR Company was in business from about 1914-1923 in Fairhope, Alabama. The original business plan was to extend the line to Robertsdale, Alabama where it would hook up with the L&N Railroad. The PRR suffered financial losses du...

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  2. viii.10.3 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/8/1913 to E. B Gaston from William Gomms in Ft. Myers, Florida who is sending money to buy a bond in the People's Railroad Company. He says he is trying to interest some wealthy friends in the Railroad project. He wants to have a telephone installed in his house in Fairhope and wants Gaston to see to it that the poles and wires are put in by the time he returns.

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  3. viii.10.34 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/8/1915 from Carl G. Johnson to A. M. Troyer of Fairhope expressing regret over not being at a meeting and that Mr. Winberg had promised to present some fills at the meeting, but did not do so. and notes he has not been paid any wages for a year and needs the cash as he is leaving in two weeks. He notes bills payable and outlines several issues with bonds being lost or transferred to others. Notes he gave E. B. Gaston a bond to be...

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  4. viii.10.35 - Legal Documents

    Copy of an affadavit signed by C. G. Johnson, secretary of the Peoples Railroad Company, saying that unsold bonds of the company, which were in his possession, valueing $2,500.00-$2,750.00 were destroyed when his home in Silverhill, Alabama was destoyed by fire.

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  5. viii.10.4 - Letter

    Undated letter (but likely April, 1914) to E. B.Gaston from J. Gray Aucon in the Panama Canal Zone. Aucon is sending $50 for a bond in the People's Railroad Company and hopes "a good number of sporty people" will be willing to invest also.

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    viii.10.4
  6. viii.10.41 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/8/1926 to E. B. Gaston. Letter is unsigned but is likely from Marietta Johnson as it is signed by the Director of the Fairhope Summer School in Greenwich, CT, of which she is the Director.The letter seems to be about the turning in of People's Railroad Company bonds. She says that she does not know just what sending in the bonds means and if it means that they are added to Gaston's indebtedness, then she will not send hers in, and ...

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  7. viii.10.5 - Letter

    Undated letter to E. B. Gaston from F. Heather in Long Island, New York acknowledging his bond in the People's Railroad Company.

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  8. viii.11.10 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/16/1914 to John W. Luce from E. B. Gaston enclosing bond no. 839 in the People's Railroad Company.

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  9. viii.11.11-12 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/18/1914 to E. B. Gaston from T. P. Lyon enclosing a check for $100.00 for a People's Railroad Company bond and noting other successful investments in Single Taxer projects.

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    viii.11.11-12
  10. viii.11.13 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/25/1914 to T. P. Lyon of Washington D. C. from E. B. Gaston enclosing People's Railroad Company bond No. 102.

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  11. viii.11.14 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/19/1916 to Jas. D. Mackintosh from President People's Railroad Company enclosing bond No. 108 for $100.00.

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  12. viii.11.15-18 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/10/1915 to E. B. Gaston from Louise Manly of Marion, Alabama thanking him for his letter in which he enclosed Bond No. 893 for $25 in the People's Railroad Company.

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  13. viii.11.19 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/9/1915 to E. B. Gaston from Louise Manly of Marion, Alabama enclosing $75.00 to buy another bond in the People's Railroad Company. She sends love to Mrs. Gaston, Cornie, and mentions Miss Clements, Arthur and Leah.

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    viii.11.19
  14. viii.11.2 - Legal Documents

    Legal Document dated 4/13/1925 signed by John D. Leigh, Judge of the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Alabama, in equity. Fiske Warren - Compaintant vs. People's Railroad Company - Defendants Alleging that bonds to the amount of $12,500.00 were issued under the deed of trust mentioned in the bill of complaint and that the owners have only $2,400.00 of same. Ordering that Register give notice thereof by publication in the Fairhope Courier a...

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  15. viii.11.20-21 - Letter

    Letter dated 8/30/1915 to E. B. Gaston from Louise Manly saying that if the $75.00 check she sent for a People's Railroad Company bond is not already used, she has half a mind to ask him to return it, as she finds that she can hardly afford to invest it that way now.

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    viii.11.20-21
  16. viii.11.22-23 - Letter

    Letter dated 9/29/1915 to Miss L. Manly in Anderson, South Carolina from E. B. Gaston enclosing bond # 112 for $100.00 in the People's Railroad Company. He says they are begging off paying interest at the moment but he will personally see to it she gets hers. He mentions the Mobile and Baldwin County road and the Magnolia Beach Wharf as having taken business away from the People's Railroad Company. He gives a report on all of his children, France...

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  17. viii.112.4 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/14/1926 ro Register Circuit Court, Bay Minette, Alabama from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation presenting for participation in the distribution os assets of the late People's Railroad Company bond numbers 941, 943, 944 and 945.

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    viii.12.4
  18. viii.11.28 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/9/1926 to Louise Manly from E. B. Gaston saying that he misplaced an envelope that she sent that may have contained People's Railroad Company bonds. He is enclosing an affidavit for her to execute before a notary and tells her to send it to the address given.

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  19. viii.11.29-30 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/30/1926 to E. B. Gaston from Louise Manly saying that she sees that the time for presenting the People's Railroad Company bond has been extended. She says her bond number is 112 and the amount is $100.00.

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    viii.11.29-30
  20. viii.11.3 - Letter

    Unsigned (likely E. B. Gaston) letter dated 3/24/1926 to the Hon. John D. Leigh, Judge of Circuit Court, Baldwin County, Alabama saying that he was the president of the now defunct People's Railroad Company whose affairs are now being wound up by Edward P. Totten. He is asking for an extention of time to personally, at his own expense, contact those people who bought bonds in the company so that they have due opportunity to protect their interes...

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    viii.11.3

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