Gasoline-powered tractors, harvesters and other equipment worked most economically on the large, level acres of midwestern farms, and the east coast farmer with modest landholdings could not hope to compete on the market with the streamlined efficiency of western farms.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
But the call of smoke and battle was too strong, and, securing a berth as war-correspondent for a leading midwestern newspaper, he returned to the far East and the scenes of the Russo-Japanese conflict in 1904. He was present at the battle of Liaoyang his description of which in "Routledge Rides Alone" fairly overwhelms the reader.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
It all began when the new bookkeeping machine of a large midwestern coffin manufacturer slipped a cog, or blew a transistor, or something.
"And All the Earth a Grave"
Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp)