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Why would the filing date of a birth certificate be prior to the date of birth?

My grandmother's birth certificate states her date of birth as December 21, 1914.

At the bottom there are two dates. One appears to be a filing date, and the other I am not sure I understand the meaning of.

How can there be dates on this record before her date of birth? What do these other dates mean?

Frances Marion Nottingham Certificate of Birth