The True Story of the Dallas Secretary Who Invented Liquid Paper
The founder of the office staple started out as a single mother trying to make her life at work a little easier.
By Peter Simek
Published in
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April 27, 2021
12:13 pm
Spoiler alert: the contents of this blog post will answer one of the trivia questions in the May edition of
D Magazine. It has to do with Liquid Paper and the Dallas secretary who invented it. Her name was Bette Nesmith later Bette Nesmith Graham a single mom who, in 1956, tried to find a simple way to make her life at work easier.
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DYK-Did You Know or Do You Know-an acronym. The question is did you know that Liquid Paper was invented by the mom of a member of the TV/rock group hit series, The Monkees ?
Michael Nesmith, guitarist and member of the 60 s rock group The Monkees has a mom that probably made money than her rock music/TV star son.
Bette Nesmith Graham was a divorced mom trying to make ends meet in the 40 s and 50 s. Trying to make a buck, she made money with various pt jobs and eventually typing and shorthand. Gaining full-time employment with a Texas bank, she was working as an executive assistant when changes were made in the typewriter industry that turned out to cause more mistakes being made.
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