Today, the pair apparently once owned by a coal miner in Colorado is to be hand-delivered to the Levi Strauss museum in San Francisco, where it will be exhibited near one almost the same age, but in poorer condition.
One reason this pair of jeans is so important is that we lost everything in the 1906 earthquake and fire and the first 50 years of our history were destroyed, Lynn Downey, company historian, told The New York Times. I knew this would be a treasure that everyone in the company would want us to have so, there was no question.
The jeans, which have a single back pocket and a leather patch on the waistband, were found in remarkably good shape in November by someone combing an old mine. The pair dates from 1886 to 1902, when the jeans cost around $1.25, Downey said.
The person who found the jeans sold them for $10,000. Another investor paid $15,000, and the owners of What Comes Around Goes Around, a vintage apparel store in Manhattan, paid $20,000.
The biggest market for vintage jeans is Japan, but I wanted to keep them in the country, said Seth Weisser, co-owner of the store. I called Levi’s and overnighted them pictures.
Only a woman who was raised on a farm can understand why a husband isn’t home exactly at 5 o’clock, said Pam Fjeld, president of the Illinois chapter of Singles in Agriculture. And only a person from a farm can understand why you have to bale hay now instead of going to a play or movie.
Singles in Agriculture operates in fields where other singles organizations have yet to tread. The exclusive club, founded in 1986, is open only to those who are connected with agriculture.
Farm people are different than urban people, Ms. Fjeld said. They have a different set of problems that many people just can’t relate to. There is isolation on the farm. People work alone day after day. Singles in Agriculture brings people together. It isn’t a dating service or an organization to couple you with someone else. It’s just for friendship.
The organization plans a variety of educational, recreational and social opportunities for its members, who range from 18 to 80. Some chapters have monthly activities while others meet only occasionally, but never during harvest or planting season, Ms. Fjeld said.
Kittles was convicted on 42 counts of animal neglect two years ago in Oregon, news reports indicated. Kittles lived in a school bus along with 117 dogs, four cats and two chickens.
The woman, who was evicted last Wednesday from her Rawlins trailer, had brought in homeless dogs and cats to live with her. After her eviction, she put the animals in her car and went West.
Kittles arrest has put a strain on Sweetwater County’s animal shelter. The Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office and Humane Society are seeking donations to care for the 72 dogs that have been taken in by the shelter.
The two were among five winners of the Breathe Right I’m All Stuffed Up Kids Drawing Contest. The winners split $9,000 in prize money among themselves and their schools.
Andy Holmes, of Allen, Texas, won the $2,500 grand prize for his Elves with Marshmallows drawing.
Kelvin Evans, 44, had allegedly been drinking beer and using marijuana and cocaine, but investigators were unsure what caused his death Tuesday, Sgt. Craig Muckle said.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office withheld details on the Atlanta man’s case this morning until relatives were informed.
The girlfriend, Debra Gray, told police that Evans was reading a Bible, then suddenly pulled her hair and tried to poke out her eyes before biting off her thumb and some skin from her face.
Police said he also fought with security officers at the Bowen Homes project and threatened to kidnap a neighbor’s 3-year-old son.
Bride-to-be Rhonda Amaral, 27, had a bump on her forehead and a bloody nose when police arrived to break up a bridal shower brawl Sunday.
The fight started when Rhonda was slapped by her sister Robin Amaral, who was angry over her older sister’s foul language and insults of family members, police said.
Rhonda responded by hurling a glass cake cover that shattered when her sister blocked it with her wrist, police said.
Their father broke up the fight by wrestling Rhonda to the ground, and police said she tried to bite an officer who handcuffed her.
Rhonda spent the night in jail and pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, receiving a $100 fine and probation.
Robin needed eight stitches to close her wrist wound. She has been charged with simple assault.
Robert James Hunt, 35, was charged Monday in U.S. District Court with pretending to be a Secret Service agent.
Hunt is accused of offering investigative services to a Pittsburg sporting goods store worker in November while posing as a Secret Service agent.
He was arrested Friday and a search of his home turned up the same kind of 9 mm pistol that is used by the Secret Service.
The alleged offense came the same month he was released from prison after pleading guilty in 1994 to another impersonation charge.
The legal complications could interfere with his latest role. He is a candidate in Pittsburg’s city commission election scheduled for next month.
Though Mrs. Cameron turned 100 on Tuesday, she still takes care of herself in her seven-room home in Leesburg, Mercer County, where she lives alone. She even packs lunches for her 56-year-old son, who lives next door.
I don’t have the same energy I used to have, said the 86-pound great-great grandmother.
She attributed her long life to being happy, working hard and abstaining from alcohol and smoking. The only time she was ever hospitalized was when she gave birth to the youngest of her five children.
I think she’s lived so long because she’s always been a hard worker, said Becky Cameron of Blacktown, who is married to Mrs. Cameron’s grandson, Scott.
Born in New Castle on March 4, 1897, the former Grace Burnside was the oldest of seven children. All have died but one sister, Francis Thayer, 95, of Youngstown, Ohio.
During her 54-year marriage to Riley Cameron, who died in 1969, Mrs. Cameron drove him everywhere because he never had a driver's license. Together, they shared all the chores on their 100-acre farm plowing, milking and putting up hay.
Deaton, now 32, was sentenced to death in 1984 for killing Santi Pasquale Campanella. The construction firm vice president picked up Deaton and his partner, Kerry Dean Hall, in Fort Lauderdale in May 1983.
Prosecutors in the trial said that Deaton and Hall robbed Campanella, strangled him with a lamp cord on a Fort Lauderdale side street, stuffed his body in the trunk of his car and drove to Tennessee with three teen-age girls.
Investigators found the body in a well outside Knoxville, Tenn. Hall got life in prison. Deaton was sentenced to die in Florida’s electric chair. He has escaped the death penalty through appeals. Finally, his attorneys argued that a state law prohibits one partner in crime from receiving a harsher sentence than the other.
On Thursday, Circuit Judge Carole Taylor agreed and sentenced Deaton to two consecutive life terms.
Taylor said Deaton would be eligible for parole after 25 years.
Based on the case law I have no choice but resentence the defendant, Taylor said Thursday. But I intend to send a message to the parole board that he remain forever in prison.
We don’t know what they eat or what their susceptibility to predators is. But they don’t seem to handle rough terrain very well, said Gerry Engel, the Forest Service’s Silver City district ranger.
One emu was rounded up Saturday near Emory Pass, and another was herded into a horse trailer Monday near Mimbres.
The Forest Service is in a quandary about what to do with the big birds, Engel said. The agency could possibly treat the birds as unauthorized livestock, advertising for the owner and, if the owner is not found, selling the birds, he said.
But we really would like to find the owner, Engel said.
Adult emus are about 6 feet tall and weigh around 100 to 125 pounds, compared with 10 feet and about 400 pounds for an adult ostrich, Fanning said.
And it’s costing the city not only to replace the manhole and drain covers, but also to pay for legal settlements with people who are injured or have had their cars damaged. About 1,500 lids were stolen off catch basins and 600 manhole covers were stolen last year, and the numbers are rising, said Kathleen Leavey, deputy director of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
It’s been a gnawing problem for years, Ms. Leavey said. Officials suspect city employees may be partly responsible for the thefts. They have asked Detroit police to investigate.
No one has ever been arrested for such thefts, city attorneys told the Detroit Free Press in a story published Wednesday. About three years ago, department investigators found a junk yard that was buying them, but it has since gone out of business. City Scrap Recycling won’t accept anything that appears to be owned by the city, office manager Peter Wojda said.
We see them often enough but don’t buy them, mostly to stay out of trouble, Wojda said.
You wouldn’t believe what comes in our door stop signs, streetlights, manhole covers. It’s unreal.
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