magazine (n.)
A magazine is something you read. The word comes from the Arabic makhzan, a storehouse or depot, and reached English through French in the 1580s.1
Its first English sense was the literal one: a warehouse, and particularly a store of military supplies and ammunition.1
In 1731 Edward Cave started a monthly in London called The Gentleman’s Magazine, made up of pieces gathered from other publications. He meant the word as it sounds, a storehouse of writing, and it is the first periodical the word was used for.12
The rifle kept the older sense. The part that holds the cartridges is a magazine because it is where they are stored. The shelf at the newsagent and the box of ammunition are named for the same thing.1
The article ran in a monthly magazine.