The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-22 00:00:00

ESTABLISHED 1710 AND 1810.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances eft, del in all parts of the United Kinglom
and in Foreign countries. Total sum insured in 1881
1C270,939 1174.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Policy holders participate in foir-fifths of the Profits,
Claims paid immediately after proof of death and title.
Low rates of premiums for young lives.]

MIDLAND BRANCEI OFFICE-

I'2, COLSIORE-ROW, BIRMINGHAM,
J. B. NEWHAM JAMES,
District Manager.

Agents at Stourbridge:
MR. TT. JAMES, Birmingham Banking Ceomptny.
:rIESSRS. BEIMIRD and KING, Solicitora.
11R. G. RICHARDS, Station Master, G.W.R.

, PAWNING I PI'S OF TRW:BM FOIL MIDICINIC—James
Francis Thomas lives at Pontnewynydil. near Pontypool,
Monmouthrhire. lie is now twenty-three y ears of age,
living with his mother, a widow. Some eleven years ago,
thou a mere boy, he went to work in a coal•pi t as a miner.
in o• der to assist his mot'ler in rearing her ;a inily of little
children. Soon,liewever, the little fellow broke down iao
h.ealth ; but the necessities of the family seemed to tegaire,
t. and he continued to toil in the mines, self. ring all the
tim , from the effects of in.ligestion, 511 neonisiug eympann
oeieg asthma, io such a trotitilesome feral Cott tee 003' WWI
'unable to be al be!. Wolkine tin °ugh the da), :Leo feet,
ug as hes, . e could -hi an arm chair during ti e niht
naturally undermined his constiti t.ou. Year 'uy year,by
• ie health grew worse and worse, until at last rheumatism
eatue with all its dreadful agony. Oue joint alter mealier
P
swellen and lull -mod, so that he was obliged to stop
work. In his sad plielit the now youn,: 111411 was confined
to the house for two lung year+, suffering all that mortal
old endu. e. One physical) after another was called upon
to treat his comelitiet, but wah no •elietit. tor 111, peer,
fellow continued togrew worse aka woree. sloping to find
.oute means of relief, a coneultation of doe ors was hold
ween it• was decided that an oreanie disease of the heart
existed in an in ureble form, and that medicsl aid could
ic,
not afford relief. He was given up to die. These yeats el
expensive medical trentet, nt had exiiausted the litile
savings o he mother, and they had- no money to buy evils
he neice,saries of life. But a fund mother never gives up
n desp ir. There was one seark of hope left. Stant:one
uad told her of a remedy that ha' cured eo man). c•L"'"—
s.ell when as hopeless as his tam seemed; o be—awd the
oiler's ion wont out for her dear boy. But how to gat
.e medicind W... 8 the question. Their money was entircy
.one. The boy hada new pair of trnu.e. a that he had keen
a) ill to wear, and the mother reasoned within herself, '•I
the boy is to die he will not need them, co , may as well
leledge them for meth inc with au t ffert to save his life.''
Strange as it may appear. the bottles of moticine procured
at the chemist's shop iu Pontypool, with the money obtaiued
it the pawnbroker's effected a cure in this boneless ease,
ewe', hail been pronounced as incurable. tint it is only te
• that if the chemist had known of the wants of the family
.: m.dicine could have been oh Mired without a visit to
Le p ovnbroker. It is now nearly two yews a nee this
ok place, and young James Francis Thomas has been
working in the coal-pit und-rgrounl ever Sitter, carteng
.:x•ra pay f r over-work, whiah he is able to perform. Of
Turco he never had orgenic di ens ) of the heart au was
unposed. The palpitation, rtieumat em, and bulimia wen:
:net° sympt Ales of the r.-al disease, which was de slair ia,
or indiges.ion. for which the remedy Wall especelly etlapti. it
'Those who wish to commuuica.e with this young mall can
write to bins at the above address, a. d he oi.l vouch for t lee
unitive properties of Seigel's :syrup, the article that
effected this at . ott mirazulous cure. Thu foll 3 wieg letter
is from a chemist, who thought the facts Hien JO 00 wad
vel nest
known t—" James Francis lhoinas, of PuetnewYnd,e c .....
Pontypool, age twenty-three, collier, was ill for Ts .) .
r I 3 down in
unable to do any work for three years,
bed for nine years, had to sleep ; are end who
trtated by nearly all the doctors for
laininnuitisrn and heart
generally stated his compaeint to b.
ard. all power to care it
disease of a chronic nature, atdbeyo
be Wad pet' 11.00 1 to in..
1‘ hen hopelad lita ly died out,
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selger e Syrup; n A etonoep%;eneic ;astute, was
and, tc ill- el et.er Lakin :half a bottle he
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