When Park Helm laments about the state of gangster-overrun Lakopolis, his friend, Professor Nicholson, sends him into the future to observe whether things will get better, but somehow Helm manages to do a lot more than just observe, eventually becoming the future boss man, gaining a lovely wife, and generally righting wrongs.

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  1. “The Man Who Changed the Future” by R. F. Starzl, in Wonder Stories, June 1931.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by R. F. Starzl