Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1917 — “SLACKER” HOLDS HE GAVE WIFE WRONG AGE [ARTICLE]

“SLACKER” HOLDS HE GAVE WIFE WRONG AGE

Kansas City, Mo.—To keep his wife from knowing his exact age. which he considered too advanced, Anthony Schwatken of Kansas City, Kan., told the clerk he was twenty-five years old when he applied for a marriage license last January. He regretted his efforts to fool Cupid when he was brought to police headquarters for investigation on a “s®cker” charge. He now declarer his agO is thirty and says he can prove it by birth records at Hammond, Kan.