Jacob Nordskog (1865-1925)

NORDSKOG, LARSON, TIEDE, DANES

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/20/2022 at 10:03:57

From Nevada Evening Journal November 23, 1925 (page 1)

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: This article runs off the margin of the images so the words in brackets are total conjecture.

STORY CIT MAN SLASHED THROAT WITH RAZOR BLADE

JACOB NORDSKOG DESPONDENT OVER ILL HEALTH TOOK OWN LIFE.

[Spe]cial to the Journal.
Story City, Nov. 23--Jacob Nord[sko]g, 55, for a quarter of a century a [ma]il carrier out of the local post [off]ice was found death on the floor, at [his] home Sunday evening, his throat [sla]shed from ear to ear wit the [hand]le of a safety razor lying by his [si]de.

Earlier in the day Nordskog, his [---] broken down under brooding [ov]er his failing health, had been at [the] home of a neighbor and attempted [to] borrow a shotgun, but was refused [an]d advised to return to his home an [ta]ke a needed rest.

In the early part of the evening the [neig]hbors noticed that the usual light [in] his home was missing and going [ov]er, they found the victim of the [trag]edy lying on the floor, just within [his] door, his body cold in death.

Sheriff Nebergall of this city and [Coro]ner Mills of McCallsburg were [call]ed by Mayor Jacobson, but after [talk]ing over the situation and inter[view]ing some of the neighbors, they [deci}ded that no inquest was necessary.

Nordskog had been a hard drinker [---] some time and it was known that [his] mind was breaking down under [the] conditions.

[D]uring the forenoon he had appear[ed] at the home of W. J. Denning and [ask]ed to borrow a shotgun, stating [that] he wished to kill a couple of [---]t horses he had seen around [the] premises. He was refused the [loa]n and advised to return to his home [and] take a rest. Later in the day he [return]ed and asked for an axe. This [was] also refused.

Other neighbors had noticed that he [had] been acting strangely during the [----] but nothing especially unusual [was] thought of it because of his hab[it.]

[M]r. Nordskog had lived in Story [City] all his life and had carried [mail] out of the local post office since [the] service was installed about 25 [year]s ago.

{Mr}s. Nordskot had been dead for [some] years, but he leaves two sons [and] four daughters. Hel ived alone [at his] home in the south part of Story [City.]

[Th]e sons are Joseph of northwest [of St]ory City and Gerald of Chicago, [and] the daughters are Mrs. Clarene [Larso]n of Randall, Mrs. Clare Teide [should be Tiede0 [of De]s Moines, Mrs. Della Danes of [Des] Moines and Miss Gladys, who [is at] her home with the sister at [Rand]all.

[His} brother, John Nordskog committ[ed sui]cide by taking poison, while [-------]d in business out at Dayton, a [numbe]r of years ago.

[No] arrangements have been made [for] the funeral as yet, pending the [arriv]al of the children.