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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1875
Page
2
A long column argues taxation equity between property and income, criticizes city debt loads, and explains how bond-funded improvements raise property values and taxes. It critiques Civil Service reform, exposes customs graft, and laments political decline while noting public works and municipal employment concerns.
A traveler approaches a wedding by a river where the tale describes a solemn vow. The narrative follows the traveler wading through water and meeting the bridegroom, leading to an emotional pledge of life together.
Clara and Mary Merwin, orphans living with their mother’s death and father’s recent passing, discover their estate is not as large as hoped. A scheming lawyer, Abner Campbell alias Bell, arrives with a mortgage on forty thousand dollars, seeking control. Through legal maneuvering and a warning from Alexander Campbell, the sisters seek relief, while a forged Tennessee mortgage is exposed and the con artist flees. Abner stays to arrange affairs. the sisters gain relief and gratitude from Mr. Pierce and others. The court actions follow, with judgments and probate results involving several estates and debts.
Abutting property owners in Columbia township sought to stop county widening a road from forty to sixty feet. The court ruled the road should be sixty feet wide. Also noted are judgments in Estate and partition cases, including a verdict for the defendant and a partition decree dispute with fee allocations.
An OCR fragment lists property transfers, staked lots, and notices involving multiple parties such as Versi, Ayovell, Franklin, Duncan, and Green. It mentions parcels on various streets, rights to purchase, and neighboring landmarks, interleaved with stray notes about cattle, trayed cows, and local names, all in a mid 20th century ledger style.
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