CONTENTS - The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1909) - 7

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Preface	[5]
The Sicilian and Calabrian Earthquake	[7]
Contributions to the Italian Red Cross	[9]
The American Red Cross Orphanage	[11]
Houses for Italy	[16]
Early Days of Relief (illustrated)	[19]
By W. Bayard Cutting, Jr.
Red Cross Relief Ship Bayern (illustrated)	[43]
By Lieut.-Commander Reginald R. Belknap, U. S. A.
Other Measures of American Red Cross Relief	[58]
Italian Relief Notes (illustrated)	[59]
American Red Cross Receipts by States	[64]
How New York Raised Funds for Italy	[66]
Origin of the Christmas Stamp (illustrated)	[69]
Funds Raised through Sale of Red Cross Christmas Stamps, 1908 (illustrated)	[75]
Competition for 1909 Christmas Stamp Design	[82]
South China Flood Relief (illustrated)	[83]
An Inspiration (illustrated)	[89]
By Nellie Olmsted Lincoln.
The Story of the Red Cross (with Portrait)	[92]
Rules for the Prevention of Railroad Accidents	[95]
Notes	[96]

Entered at the Post Office, Washington, D. C., as second-class matter.

Messina—View Showing Destruction Along Water Front.

(By courtesy of the New York World.)

His Excellency, Lloyd C. Griscom, American Ambassador at Rome.