Reporter Oscar Mannheim has many opportunities in his long life, but never wants to leave the midwest Galesburg that he grew up in—and neither do its many other citizens and artifacts of the past.
To make sure, I walked over to a newsboy and glanced at the stack of papers at his feet. It was The World; and The World had’nt been published for years. The lead story said something about President Cleveland. I’ve found that front page since, in the Public Library files, and it was printed June 11, 1894.

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  1. “I Love Galesburg in the Springtime” by Jack Finney, in McCall’s Magazine, April 1960.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jack Finney