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...Most astounding intelligence!" to President J. Edward De Lancey of the Irvington (N. J.) Board of Education was the news that the 116 candidates for teaching positions in Irvington schools had all failed in an eligibility examination last month. Irvington needed 20 teachers. Robert Lee Saunders, superintendent of schools, sent notices to normal schools throughout the East. Came 114 young ladies, two young men, all properly quali- fied graduates, to take a five-hour test in spelling, punctuation and diction, grammar and composition, and arithmetic. All failed in the requirement: to pass all four sections with a grade...
...mansion built at Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. by the late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker with part of the fortune which she made from the sales of hair-straightener to other Negroes, was offered at auction. But in contrast to the eager crowds who scrambled to buy the furnishings last winter (TIME, Dec. 8) only a few desultory bidders appeared at "Villa Lewaro." Their dim enthusiasm became dimmer when the famed $25,000 organ in the house refused to play. The housekeeper who alone knew the secret of its operation was absent. When nothing better than...
...Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass., 3 shares; National Kindergarten Association, 2 shares; Dobbs Ferry (N. Y.) Hospital Association, 2 shares; Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, 2 shares; S. P. C. A. of Massachusetts, 1 share; M. E. Church, Irvington, N. Y., 1 share...
...explained it was because the contemporary Tobey had to have a place to run in. The present Tobey has his own brass bed, his own specially constructed table alongside Miss Wendel's. When this Tobey dies he will be buried with his predecessors in the Wendel dog-graveyard at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. (the Wendel summer-home...
...late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker, St. Louis Negro washwoman who grew rich from sales of a straightener of kinky hair, built a $250,000 mansion in New York City's socialite suburb Irvington-on-Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales...