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"Turkish" scam artists flee Traverse City

pioneerwoman.jpg The Grand Traverse Herald has published their latest installment of news from 100 years ago. In this weeks edition, the the story of a pair of "Asiatic Turks from Mesopotamia" (present-day Iraq) who visited Traverse City to raise money for an orphanage back home, and who left town in a hurry after being questioned by the police.