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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, January 26, 1909
From Wikipedia: The Billiken is a charm doll created by an American art teacher and illustrator, Florence Pretz of Kansas City, Missouri, who is said to have seen the mysterious figure in a dream.
Actress Florence Reed at home touching a Billiken Man, from a 1921 Photoplay magazine interview: