PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE. JAMES FRANCIS THOMAS lives in Poutnewnydd, near Politypool, Monmouthshire. He is now 28 years of age, living with his mother, u widow. Some 11 years of age, then a mere boy, he went to work in the coalpit as a miner, in order to assist liis 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, suffering all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom being asthma, in such u troublesome form that the boy was unable to lie in bed. Working through the day, and resting as liest he could nan armchair during the uight lurally undermined his cousltiuion
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 45, 12 November 1886, Page 4
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135Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 45, 12 November 1886, Page 4
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