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Good news, on the new server you can now e-mail each other simply by clicking the little e-mail icon in the upper right hand corner of messages. (If you hold your mouse over the icons, they will tell you want they do eventually (if there is any confusion)).

ALSO. I think Private Messages work well. I know I have said this about a thousand times over the past year. But maybe this is it!!! (crossing fingers).

Also, my little anchored topic about registration, it would be appreciated if no one replied to it (I removed the replies (and to the thank you's, your welcome). This is so it takes less space (in terms of screen) and it can still be anchored so visitors who return to Billikens.com (when they realize it is actually up again).

As for the main site, that may not get back to looking normal for a few weeks (end of high school and I don't think it is a high priority for people to know who had the most steals of the 1988 Billikens, if it is, e-mail me, I will help you out, ).

So lets just think of the past month as a little coma for Billikens.com, and it is getting its strength back over the next few weeks).

That is all from the desk of Steve, if you have any registration problems. Hollar, I have everyone's old passwords printed out, and I can register you pretty quickly (I would do all of them, but that is 232 Registrations, and, yeah... That isn't happening).

Steve

[Someone e-mailed this to me]

Someone e-mailed this to me concerning my "What is a Billiken?" Page:

Dear web. master,

It was originally created in 1908 by the Craftsman's Guild in Highland Park Illinois. It seems to be based directly on the Japanese "Piriken or "Pilliken" of Osaka

The Billiken was created in 1908 in USA, and it came to Japan in around 1910. In 1912, the Luna ParkA

a Japanese version of Disney Land was eastablished in Osaka. In the "white tower" in the

Luna Park, this american god was enshrined, and therefore, it is clear that American Billiken was not based

on the Japanese " Piriken " of Osaka. He is a true-born american.

I have one question. The Craftsman's Guild in Highland Park Illinois was making some Billiken dolls for

E.I. Horsman Co. ? It is very clear that they are distributedf and sold by E.I. Horsman Co.

Another publication of your University says that Dorothy Jean Ray, writer and historian found the secret

of Billiken. It is very clear that it was originated by Florence Pretz.

The popular belief about Billiken in Japan and osaka are also confusing. One od them is "Billiken was

created by an american lady sculptor E.I. Horsman base on a figure which appreared in her dream !

This is an invention which we Japanese like. There are too many such legends in Japan.

Craftsman's Guild of what ? the dolls or wood carvings, or ceramics ? This is my

another question.

Yours sincerely,

Hiroaki Sasaki

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Anyone know of Billiken evidence before 1908?

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