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This Day in Minnesota History

January 17, 1915

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The Mesaba Transportation Company of Hibbing is incorporated. Owners Andrew G. Anderson and Carl Eric Wickman transport passengers and freight from Hibbing to destinations in Alice and Grand Rapids. A subsidiary company, the Mesaba Motor Company, is incorporated on October 23, 1919, to build, repair, and sell buses. Through various mergers, these companies would eventually become Greyhound Lines, headquartered in Chicago.

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