As you can see from the photo above, Kinsley, Kansas is the middle of the country.
It is also the site of the Edwards County Museum. The museum is small, but it houses a variety of interesting exhibits such as the one shown below, identified in the museum as a lace loom.
It appears to be a “Princess Lace Loom,” produced and sold in the early 1900s by the Torchon Lace Company, based first in Chicago and then St. Louis. The company claimed that more than 25,000 were sold.
It might more properly be called a bobbin lace maker. It was used to produce basic lace patterns such as those shown below, also on display at the museum.
The device in the next photo, also in the museum, was designed to harvest corn.
It was called a “Corn Sled.” As it was pulled through a field, the opening on the left would gather the corn. The blade, which you can see just under the Corn Sled label, would cut the stalks
And then, there is this:
