The smell of tanned saddle leather pervades the store, a warren of almost claustrophobically well-stocked small rooms.

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In fact, excellent soft jerky is widely available in Asia, yet for some reason in this country we insist on the texture of shoe leather, with the convenience store bagged varieties giving jerky a bad name.

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Investigators found Emerson's black leather wallet containing her identification cards in a convenience store trash bin in the Forsyth County city of Cumming.

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Wearing maroon jerseys (the only colour available at the local sporting-goods store), and with high-top shoes, leather maskless helmets and trousers padded with magazines, the Maroons beat the league's other strong team, the Chicago Cardinals, towards the end of the 1925 season.

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The remodeled store would be more like a mature version of the present stores, with wooden tables and faux leather chairs instead of fiberglass tables and steel chairs.

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