PAWN INC A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE. I AMES FRANCIS THOMAS lives fl in Pontnewnydd, near Politypool. Monmouthshire. Ho is now tin years of ago. living witli his mother, a widow. Some 11 years of age, thou a mere Isiy. he wont to work in the coalpit as u miller, in Older to assist his mother in rearing her family of little children. Soon, however, the little follow broke down in health, bnt tile necessities of the family seemed to re<|iiire it. and he continued to toil in the mines, suffering all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom bein'* asthma, in such a troublesome form that the boy was unable to lie in lasi. Working through the «hiy. and resting as la st he could in an armchair during the night naturally undermined hi* constitution
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 12, 20 July 1886, Page 4
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140Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 12, 20 July 1886, Page 4
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