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.