Henry Howard Holmes’ hotel was located just three miles from the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition: World’s Fair in Chicago, offering a resting place for fairgoers after the day’s festivities. The informally named “Murder Castle” featured a series of hidden passages and torture chamber...
In an effort to protect smaller gas station operators from the aggressive pricing of bigger companies, the state of New Jersey instituted a law in 1938 that prevented gas stations from raising prices more than once a day. In 2005, this law was put to the test when civil action was taken ...