The Block Island Times
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This Week in History — September 22, 1888: Ansel Ball’s firm handshake

By Robert M. Downie | Sep 26, 2012

This week in history, in their local newspaper of September 22, 1888, islanders could read about the beginning of a new cottage on a farm halfway down Corn Neck:

“Mr. Hiram A. Ball has contracted with Mr. A. D. Mitchell for a new house.”

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