The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-04-12 00:00:00

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ESTABLISHED 1710 AND 1810.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances fft-cted in all parts of the I.lnitc,i Kingdom
'ld in Foreign countries. Total sum insured iu 1881
270,959.974.

T IFE DEPARTMENT.
Policy holders participate in foir-faths of the Prnats,
!aims paid immediately after proof of death and title.
OW rates of premiums for young lives.

MIDLAND BRANCH OFFICE--

I'2, COLMORE-BOW. BIRMINGHAM,:
J. IL NEWSAM JAMES,
District Manager.

Agents at Stourbridge:

MR. 11, .TAMES, Birminv,ham Ranking Company.
ESSRS, BERNARD and KING. Solicitors.
IP.. G. RICHARDS, Station Master, G.W.R.

PAWNING A PAIS OF Tin:K.slßa FOR lisnrciws.--Janies
Francis Thomas lives at Pontnewynydd. near Pontypool,
‘fonmouthihire. He is now twenty-three years of age,
Lying with his mother, a widow. Some eleven years ago,
~en a mere boy, he went to work in a coal-pi as a miner.
in o der to assist his moVier in rearing her family of little
;hildren. Soon,however. the little fellow broke down in
lealth ; but the necessities of the family seemed to reg
t, and he continued to toil in the mines, miff, ring all the
,ime from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom
)eiug asthma, in awl' a troublesome form that the boy was
mable to lie in bed. Working through the day, and 'list.
ng as bes s e could in an arm chair during the night
suturally undermined his constitution. Year by year,by
his health grew worse and worse, until at last rheumatism
same with all its dreadf el agony. One joint after another
iecame swellen and infl•mied, so that he was obliged to stop
gork. In 'his sad plight the now young man was confined
the house for two long y- ars, suffering all that mortal
ould endure. One physican after another was called upon
;o treat his complaint, but with no .ienefit: for the peur,
fellow continued to grew worse and worse. Hoping to Mid
-ome means of relief, a consultation of doc.ors was held
viien it was decided that an organic dii-ease 0. the heart
3 xisted in an in umble form, and that m9die•il aid cottlit
-lot afford relief. lie was girtzt npito die. These of
3.xpeoeive medical treatment had exhausted the lit:le
mvings o he mother, and they had no money to buy even
he nece,saries of life. But a fond mother never oives up
n deep ir. There was one St ark of hope left. Someone
bad told her of a remedy that ha cured so many eases—
even when as hopeless as ihj ne seemed o —ad the
mother's lo ecs went out for her dear boy. But how to get
the medtein 3W • e the question. Their money was entirety
;ono. The boy buds new pair of treuue a that h ha eeu
to ill to wear. and the mother reasoned wit:sin herself. 'I
the boy is to die to, will not nee I them, so may as well
;ledge them for medi me with an if rt to save he lbw."
Strange as it mi,), appear, the bottles of me iicine procured
at the chemist's shop in Pontypool. with :he moue, obtained
it the pawnbroker's effected a cure in this ho
which had been pronounced as incurable, lint it is only' to
y that if the chemist had known the -.wants oldie family
the m di- ins coald have been obtained %without It
ri,lt to
he p wubroker. It is now nearly. two years a:nee this
took place, and young James Francis Thomas has 'afar"'
eara‘n
working in he coal-pit unthrground 'ever since
er'form (ft
or
ra pay f. r over-wort:, which ho ia Able to
Cs
coarse he never had organic di eas, of the heart was
upposed. The palpitation. rheumat sm, mai rsthma were
a + was . y adapted
.acre symptams olthe r al disease, &Itch was dY2P‘P
tr indiges,ion. for which the remeuy especall
• Mose who wish to communicate with a
, rite to him at the above address, a
he eitl vouch for too
of seigel's Syrup, the article that
this young lean eau
ffilraeettievdethir aPet -.rot!te'miraculous cure. The follJwing letter
is from a chemist, who thought the facts sutra be mad
known James Francis Thomas, of Pontnewynydd, ate
Pontypool, ago twenty-three, collier, was ill for time year's,
stated hie comp
unable to do any work for three ye .rs, never lay down in
Yaerrayrs'alrth*ne doctors for miles aroond who
sleep )11 ft stooping posture. was
Seigel' b Syrup saint to be rheumatism and heart
dgtbiree:ndetatfresoaedri
lob; naneechroni
c nature, and beyond all power to c ere it
When hope had nearly died out he was persuide,t to try.
and, to the delight of his relatives and
astonishment of his neighbours after taking half a bottle he
could lie down in bed. After tlekingone bottle he went t o
, work. lias taken two bottles, and on with the third, and i
quite well and strong. His mother is in raptures, antics*
Italk of nothing else but thin Marfelletia vtus, 6,nd yrisitos
RIO to maks it know:

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