PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE. Tames francis thomas live* in I’oiitnewnydd. near Pontypool. Monmouthshire. He is now 2H years of age, living with liis niollier. a widow. Some 11 years of age, then a mere boy, he went to work in the coalpit as a miner, in order to assist his mother in rearing her family of little children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke- down in health, but the of the family seemed to re<iuirc it, and he continued to toil in the mines, suffering all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom being asthma, in such a troublesome form that the boy was unable to he ill bed. Working through the day, and resting as l*>st he could 111 an armchair during the atuially uudcnuiiied his coukttiuion
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 34, 1 October 1886, Page 4
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134Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 34, 1 October 1886, Page 4
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