Archive for Newspapers
Week of Weekly Reader – Day 5
Last one for this week. I do have more that will pop up occasionally. This is another Summer Edition of My Weekly Reader A, Volume 42, Issue 1, June 15th, 1973. Buddy the bear as a stick puppet is the cover.
Then dinosaurs in Canada. Who knew? I went someplace in Missouri or Arkansas as a kid that had dinosaurs like this. And a cave too I think. And a swaying bridge over the lake which scared me to death because I thought a dinosaur would pop out of the water. I knew it would be mechanical, but water scares me anyway and the thought of a dino springing out of the water almost had me frozen.
Then the story “Mouse Music” by Carol Collver. I can tell you that these stories in these magazines are nice, but they never compare to the book. I think it’s from the limited amount of pictures. One of the best kids stories that I saw in a magazine later without all the illustrations from the book was A Porcupine Named Fluffy
. A Porcupine Named Fluffy is one of the ALL TIME BEST kids books, and when I read it in the magazine, it somehow seemed lacking without the fantastic pictures to help the words. After all that, “Mouse Music” doesn’t seem to be a book.
. A Porcupine Named Fluffy is one of the ALL TIME BEST kids books, and when I read it in the magazine, it somehow seemed lacking without the fantastic pictures to help the words. After all that, “Mouse Music” doesn’t seem to be a book.
They couldn’t find a nice fresh yellow banana to make the banana animal out of?
Week of Weekly Reader – Day 4
Today’s Summer Edition of My Weekly Reader A, Volume 42, Issue 6, July 20, 1973, is all about pollution. If it was done today, the color scheme would be green not blue. Now, get this, in the issue on pollution, they release several hundred balloons into the air! What’s going to happen too all that trash? Will a bird eat a balloon? Has this been approved by the FAA? There’s a happy face to put on your litter bag. How nice! As a bonus, here’s the Special Parents Section that was in several of these. It’s an ad for the book club, not really a special section. I can tell you that Danny and the Dinosaur
is one of the best kids books ever.
is one of the best kids books ever.
Week of Weekly Reader – Day 3
Today we have the July 13th, 1973 issue which is Volume 42 Issue 5 and was a summer edition of My Weekly Reader A. Not sure what the “A” stands for. The “My” has been added and dropped several times throughout the publications life. This week we can make a paper doll of Buddy the Bear and more on Indians. I lived in Oklahoma so I already knew quite a bit about American Indians. In fact, I always resented the fact that I didn’t have any Indian blood and got left out when they honored kids with native heritage. Funny how things change. If I’d been born 50 years earlier, I doubt that would have been an issue for me at all.
I left my address on there, as I haven’t lived there since 1978. I still remember the phone number from when I lived there also. I can’t remember my wife’s cell phone number, but I can recall the number I haven’t needed for 33 years with perfect clarity. Of course, in the 1970s we kids were drilled about our address and phone number in case we got lost or were kidnapped or something. I suppose they still do that.
Week of Weekly Reader – Day 2
Today we have a Weekly Reader “supplement” which is really an ad for the summer editions. Nine issues for just 85 cents! Count me in! Oh, I guess I already signed up. This supplement is to My Weekly Reader Surprise, which must be another variation of this thing. From Issue 18, February 13, 1974. Nice art work.
[ad#ad-2]
Week of Weekly Reader – Day 1
Why on Earth did my Mom keep a stash of my old Weekly Readers from 1973-1974? So I can post them here nearly 40 years later of course. This week I’ll be posting Weekly Readers that I just scanned, and if I get a good response, I’ll scan the rest of them. They are a bit of an odd size, so the scans aren’t perfect. Weekly Reader, “The Children’s Newspaper”, was a sort of newspaper for kids with games and some interesting information designed to educate kids about the wonderful world. It’s still around but it looks more like a magazine. We ordered it through the elementary classroom, and they were delivered to our house. In the 1970s, Xerox published it, but it began in 1928.
This is Edition 1, Volume 50, Issue 24, April 4, 1973. The beginning of baseball, dolls teach about Indians, traffic lights in Canada, Buddy the bear is a good citizen, and kids planting trees are the stories this week. This one is rather slim, the rest have more content, including book clubs!
More Reasons People Used to Read the Newspaper
In my previous post, I talked about what kinds of things one would find in the local paper, much of which is gone now as everything is nationalized. So, here are some more interesting tidbits saved by my Dad or his mother. I have no idea why.
Mary Minty reminisces over scrapbook, her family will be reunited soon. No doubt to look at her cool glasses.
Thunderbirds, local football heroes, Jim Griffith, Gerald Snyder, Eddie Lenkner, and Tim Chinn. Skyline High from the Tulsa Tribune? Wichita? Atlanta? Duluth? St. Louis? Where were we in 68? My dad’s job had us move around a lot. I wasn’t old enough to know where I was. Sept 6, 1968 in my mother’s handwriting.
Looks like we were in Duluth. Dale and Maxine Akervik.
My Grandfather had a heart attack and they used some newfangled equipment to get his heart going again. He lived about 10 more years. Gave me time to know him well enough to remember him.
My grandmother wrote a letter to the editor after doctors saved my grandfather’s life from a heart attack.
Now here’s something really interesting. Waikiki Beach Press from August 2-5, 1965. No one in my family has been to Hawaii that I know of. It’s not the whole paper, just a page from it. Sterling Mossman.
[ad#ad-2]
