My Weekly Reader, that slim, eight-or-so-page venerable chestnut of kid-targeted news, has for nearly 80 years held a reputation as a staple in grade schools throughout the country, applauded in the classroom and archived for years. Its debut issue, dated September 21, 1928, featured a McGuffey's Eclectic Primer-style aesthetic and illustrations and recounted the story of a fidgety, pre-presidential Herbert Hoover whining to his Quaker father, "Dost thou think meeting will be over soon?"
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