The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-04-05 00:00:00

ESTABLISHED 1710 AND 1810.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances effected in all parts of the United Kingdom
nd in Foreign countries. Total sum insured in 1881
1E270,959 :174.

LIFE DEPARTMENT,
Policy holders participate in forr•fifths of the Profits,
laims paid immediately after proof of death and title.
4ow rates of premiums for young lives.

MIDLAND BRANCH OFFICE—.
V 2, COLMORE-ROW, BIRMINGHAM,
J. R. NEWSAM JAMES,
District Manager.

Agents at Stourbrielge:
MR. H. JAMES, Birmingham Binking Company.
lIESSRS, BERNARD and KING, t.'v,lieitorA.
AR. G. BICITA.RDS, Station Master, G,W.R.

PAWNING A. PIIa or Teorsens roe Metacte-rt.—James
Francis Thomas lives at Pontnewynydd. near Pontypool,
elonmouththire. He is now twenty-three years of age,
living with his mother, a widow. Some eleven years ago,
v,lien a mere boy, he went to work in a coal-pi ias a miner.
in n der to assist his motlier in rearing her family of little
ehildren. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down in
health; but the necessities of the family seemed to roe-lire,
it, and he continued to toil in the mines, suffering all the
hue from the effects of indigestion, an agonising
symptom
being asthma, in such a troublesome fermi that the ooy was
unable to lie in bed. Working througn the day, and rest-
, ing as lies • i e could in an arm chair durine the ',night
natal ally undorniined his con.titut;on. Year by yeer,ny
his Ireelth grew worse and worse, until at last rheumatism
oame with all its dreadful agony. One joint after anther
oecame swollen and infl• mod, so that he was obligee to stop
work. In :his sad plight the now yonne man was confined
to the house for two long y. arg, suffering all that mortal
l could endure. aie physiean after another was called upon
? to treat his complaint, but with no i enefit fur he peer,
fellow continued to grew worse and worse. hoping to find
,onie means of relief, a consultation of doe ore WU held
when it was decided that an organic disease o. tee heart
existed in an in urable form, and that medical aid could
not afford relief. He was given up to die. These wears of
expensive medical treatment had exi.austed the little
savings o he mother, and they had no money to buy (yen
he nece-saries of life. But a fond mother never gives up
Procured
ea deep .jr. There was ono neark of hope left. Someone
had told her of a remedy teat hat cued so many cases—
ei,eu when as hopeless as ihil one seemed o be—aed the
mother's love went out for her dear boy. But how to get
he medicine wis the question. Their money was entirely
;one. The boy had a new pair of trouse: s that he had eeeu
Sattrtanhageehaesiniitstm,
obtained without wants of
athevifart family
to ill to wear. and the mother reasoned witein herself, "I
the boy is to die he will not need them, so e may as well
Pledge them for medii me with an t Met to. save his life:,
with the money obtained
at the pawnbroker's effected a cure in this hopeless ease,
which had been pronounced as incurable. But it is only to
in the coal-pit untheiground ever since, earning
the p •wneroker. It is now nearly two years since this
took place, and young James Francis Thomas has been
extra pay f• r over-work, whistle ho is able to perform, Of
course he never had organic die ass of the heart as Was
stha3e•
ittaatiiefi
nt he eccohuel
dmihsatvheabdekenno known
ac.
unposed. The palpitation, rheumatism, and estlima were
slYshaopppienaPr.otuhteypbouttoll,esof me.
licine
mere symptoms of the r.al disease, which was dyspep3ite,
or indigestion. for which the remedy was especially adapted
working
those who wish to commueicate with this young man can
write to him at the above address, tic(' he •••• ill vouch for t •
urative properties of Seigel's syrup, the article that
effected this al e eat miraculous cure. The 101 l 'wing letter
is from a chemist, who thought the facts snou ler mad
known :—"James Francis Thomas, of Pontnewynydd, era
Pontypool, age twenty-three, collier, was ill for niue years,
unable to do any work for three years, never lay
.clipownwiiin
bed for nine years, had to sleep in a btooping Postnnd , wh:
treated by nearly all the doctors for miles around
m uand heart
generally stated his complaint to be rhonnatwis r
to
cure
it
disease of a chronic nature, and beyond all po
- needed to try.
When hope had nearly died out he was f per
et; relatives end
Seigel's Syrup • and, to the delight
e tc,:eitie hal f a bottle be
[aFtowslnnent of his ncighliours, /.1),,g0r, , , ,
e i ettiti ne inebt to
f 01110 lio down in b. d. After tag .
weik. Han teken we botec
~ and tai with ,
th the thud, Lod ii
, ie
Ifi's mothll cure, and wirbes
timer is in raptures, and can
i quite wel I bud stiengent
teals marveous
p talk of nothing else a
me to make it Inown:

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