From the Washington Herald, Sunday April 14, 1912, One Hundred Years Ago...

PENNSYLVANIA IS OVERWHELMINGLY FOR ROOSEVELT

Taft Forces Are Routed In Keystone State

Colonel's Majority Will Exceed 2 To 1

Progressives Acceded Districts Formerly Claimed AsStaunch For President

Philadelphia, April 13 - At midnight it was certain that Theodore Roosevelt had captured Pennsylvania in to-day's state-wide primaries.
Late returns indicate that the former president's lead in the country will be not less than three to one, and two to one in the city of Philadelphia. This results was indicated by early returns and has been well sustained by later reports from every section of the state. He will probably have sixty-eight of the seventy-six delegates.

Problem number one for the new blogger is I can't read the text on that background. Not enough contrast. Blame it on presbyopia? I'm on it. Time to bring out the color wheel.

Well, this has been interesting. I decided to put up this author blog using Blogger. What you see is the product of about an hour banging away at Blogger. I'm actually surprised. It's much easier than I had expected.

It's obviously not as fancy and loaded with whizbangs as some other authors have, and those folks are good. But give me a bit of time and I bet I can figure out how to move this stuff around with the best of them. God only knows what we can do with another hour of work.

So, I'll probably tell you a bit about what I'm working on, comment on some other good books I have found, and make a few suggestions for solving the world's problems. With some luck, I'll even figure out how to indent my paragraphs so they don't look like ugly blocks of test.

And comments? Comments are not only turned on, they are welcome. I'll try to get an email on here, too. Maybe even a picture of my smiling self. Perhaps an honored corner for the Venerable Hunter S. Thompson...