The patient was a young black man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital on the South Side with a knife wound in his chest from a barroom brawl. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams--a founder of Provident, which had opened two years previously as the city's first interracial hospital--knew Cornish was bleeding to death.
Sometimes its your bank that allows charges to go through on an expired card if they determine it to be a recurring service charge. This is why it's often not sufficient to request a new card number if you are trying to stop a company from continuing to charge you for a recurring service.
Save. hans engbers/iStock/Getty Images. When you pay $50 for gas and charge it to your credit card, you expect to see a $50 charge in your account. Depending on where you pay -- at the pump or inside the store -- you may instead see a charge for only $1.redit Cards Hold. The $1 charge on your card only happens when you choose to pay at the pump. Credit card companies require retailers to institute the $1 hold, as do debit card companies.