PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOB MEDICINE. I AMES FRANCIS THOMAS lives in Ponliiewnydd, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire lie is now 28 years of ago, living with his mother, 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 necessities of the family seemed to require it. and he continued to toil in the mines. Buffering all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom being asthma, in such a troublesome form tliat the boy was unable to lie in lied. Working through the day. and resting as Is -t he could in an armchair during the night alurally undermined his cuusltiuum
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 October 1886, Page 4
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138Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 October 1886, Page 4
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