Michael Edwards, 8, picks out "The Fire Thief" with his grandmother Pat Edwards on Thursday at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. One hundred years ago today, a library opened in the Ellingood Building at Themis and Spanish streets in Cape Girardeau that served as the precursor to the Cape Girardeau Public Library.
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