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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1981
Page
11
The text describes the Fourth Reader from McGuffey's Eclectic Readers. It explains that finishing the book indicated education and that the series grouped works by difficulty rather than grade level. It notes eclectic meaning select and that the readers included poems stories and varied material.
A brief anecdote about a nephew asking his sister to launch a kite. Lucy helps by tossing the kite into the air, but the brother fails to move away in time, causing the kite to fall.
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