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...last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
...away from home, became a mechanic, a waiter in an insane asylum and later trainer to Barney Oldfield in the days when Oldfield was a bicycle racer...
Bernard Willis ("Barney") Snow, when not estimating crops for Bartlett Frazier Co. of Chicago, is playing politics or golf. Dean of forecasters, he has also served as bailiff of the Municipal Court and member of the Chicago City Council. Portly, bald-pated and 70, he sports a white military mustache, wears his hat tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects...
Married. Renée Wilcox Baruch, 29, younger daughter of financier Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch; and Henry Robert Samstag, Manhattan broker; in Manhattan...
...BARNEY YANOFSKY...