Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also father of Arbor Day and induced the Nebraska Legislation to establish that as a state holiday and most of the other states have adopted it as a state holiday. Mr. J. Sterling Morton established Arbor Lodge at Nebraska City, and his son, Joy Morton, head of the Morton Salt Company, recently deeded Arbor Lodge to the State of Nebraska as a state park and memorial to his father, and it is one of the most interesting state parks in the Central West. M. E. SPRINGER...
Sarsaparilla, sand and salt...
Abraham Owen Smoot crossed the plains in 1846 with Brigham Young, was mayor of Salt Lake City when the U. S. Army descended upon that "nest of polygamous iniquity." To him by his wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...
Sarsaparilla, sand and salt...
...small, wiry, grey-haired millionaire drove a leaping spray-plumed power boat up and down Indian Creek in Florida a little more than a week ago at the average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend...