PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.
I \MI.S FRANCIS THOMAS lives fl in Pontmwnvdd, mar Ponty[Hsil. Monmonth-diiiv He is now 23 years of uge, living with his mother, h widow. Nome 11 years td age, then a mere hoy, he went to work iu the coalpit as a miner, iu order to assist his mother in rearing her family of little children. Soon, however, the little fellow bruk. down in health, but the ncccstitioi of the family -coined to require it, ami he continued to toil in the mine*, sufferiug all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom being asthma, in such a trouble - i.m form that the hoy was unable w> lie in bed. Working through the day. and resting as lust he could in ui armchair during tho night Untily uiali T-jirml lp ; , COMPttUiOO
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 53, 10 December 1886, Page 4
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140Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 53, 10 December 1886, Page 4
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