Editor’s note: In recent conversations with crime writer Rose Keefe, we learned that in 2008 she’d researched the murder of Billy Bate, the first man believed to have been murdered in an automobile. She has generously allowed us to share that story, taken from her pamphlet “The Bate Auto Murder.” In 1904, Americans regarded the […]

I’m not going to say this one will be easy or, frankly, possible. For anyone, ever. But when you come across a round-up of the hood clasps of 1918, you’ve got to go for it. I will personally send you a shiny new dime if you nail all 12 – no cheating! I’ll even throw […]