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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
11
The poem portrays two shells as twin sisters of the sea sharing a tropical realm of joy. They voyage through bays and coral banks observing ancient sea monsters and finally meet mortality on distant shores. The concluding vision seeks reunion in a distant heaven where hearts meet again. PB Richardson.
Mrs. Esther Hoge Patterson of 1728 Spruce Street celebrates her 101st birthday. She credits longevity to a cheerful temperament and enjoys daily reading of Reedn Newspapers Every Day with all faculties intact and good health.
Mrs. Esther Hoge Patterson, nearly 100, is said to be 101 on the 4th of this month and a seven times a great grandmother with five grandchildren. Surviving children include Joseph Nelson Patterson of New York T H Hoge Patterson of 4231 Walnut Street and Robert William Patterson of Pittsburgh. Her late daughter was married to Charles Haseltine, with ties to European nobility. She attributes longevity to temperament heredity and simple living.
Esther Holmes Hoge Patterson, born Washington PA April 4 1807, married to Joseph Patterson of Pittsburgh lineage, linked to the Hoge and Patterson families. The couple lived in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh before settling in Philadelphia, with Patterson noted for public spirited work and early water system ideas. The piece traces Patterson ancestry to 1400s Scotland, Ireland migration, and early American achievements including a University of Pennsylvania mathematics professor and U.S. mint director. It notes Mrs. Patterson’s long life through U.S. history, witnessing vast national growth and technological progress.
The fragment narrates Tarpeia the Roman maiden who betrayed Rome for Sabine bracelets, to be killed by her reward. It describes her ambush, the bracelets, the crowd’s praise and the brutal countervenge, ending with Tarpeia’s doomed fate. The piece includes verses by Lowise Imogen Guiney and a note on Vogue crochet buttons.
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