Showing posts with label Red Cross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Cross. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Miss Annie Scahill - Listed As Red Cross Subscriber - Historical Newspapers - Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

This is an extract from Ancestry.com

The Portsmouth Herald, the original Gazette, the oldest newspaper in New Hampshire, was published as the Sunday edition of The Herald from the 1890s to 1960, when the Sunday paper began carrying the name Herald.

In 1989, a descendent of the Gazette's founder began publishing an alternative newspaper under that name.

Name: Miss Annie Scahill, listed as a subscriber to the Red Cross

Newspaper: Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Event: Subscriber to Red Cross

Venue: Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Date: 08 December 1941

Allan Scahill

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Chaplain Major John Scahill - Gives Invocation for Capped Red Cross Nurses - Historical Newspapers - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska

This is an extract from Ancestry.com

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a morning daily newspaper that serves the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Denali Borough, and the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the United States state of Alaska. It is the farthest north daily newspaper in the United States, and one of the farthest north in the world. It is the oldest continuously operating daily newspaper in Alaska, and by circulation, it is the second-largest daily newspaper in the state. It is owned by the family trusts of Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder, founders of the newspaper chain MediaNews Group, but it is not considered part of the MediaNews chain...

Name: Chaplain Major John Scahill presented the opening invocation

Newspaper: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska

Event: Red Cross Nurses Capped at Eielson

Venue: Eielson Base Chapel

Date: 4 December 1965

Allan Scahill