It was 100 years ago today that Houdini entered The Billboard offices in New York and gave an inscribed copy of Roget's Thesaurus to his good friend William J. Hilliar. Houdini said, "Hilliar, there is OUR code, but never breathe it to a living soul. If I go first and you get a message from me which includes these words you will know it is genuine. If you pass on first I will look for the same from you."
Hilliar keep the book and what Houdini had written inside a secret. In fact, it remained a secret until it was finally revealed right here on WILD ABOUT HARRY on Halloween 2016 to mark the 90th anniversary of Houdini's death.
So on the anniversary of the famous hand-off, I thought it would be fun to link back to that two-part post and relive the story of the secret Houdini-Hilliar message code:
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