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Marybeth Niederkorn

Marybeth Niederkorn is the director of the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson.

Staples through the years

Saturday, January 15, 2022

It's 1839. A clerk of the probate court is halfway through his day. It's July, so the heat is bearing down on him. No electricity, no fans, no air conditioning. His window is open. He's riffling through sheaves of paper related to a particular case, and some of those pages are especially related to each other, but the information won't all fit on a single sheet. What is he to do?

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