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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1968
Page
9
The article explains the origin of the slang two bits meaning a quarter dollar, tracing its roots to Spanish dollars split into eight pieces. It notes the phrase entered American usage from the West Indies where such pieces were exchanged for American money.
A saboteur known as Phantom Roy Clark has terrorized West German railways since 1959, with bombings and derailment attempts across Hamburg Bremen and Bremershaven. Investigators have linked threats, extortion attempts and a song by Hektor Von Usedom to the case, while a 30 member squad has pursued leads and offered rewards.
Britannica notes some Indian traditions before marriage where a bachelor symbolically marries a tree and it is cut down to confer widower status. Barbados is described as having the West Indies’ highest population density at 1,450 per square mile.
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