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1937: Santa Fe Railway train carloads through Clovis for the previous week totaled 24,097. That was up from 20,195 from the previous year, Santa Fe officials said.

A Santa Fe freight agent told the Clovis Evening News-Journal that 22 cars of livestock were shipped out of the city during the week.

1910: J.D. Osborn, Portales' new city marshal, was cracking down on violators of city ordinances.

He was focusing on "speed of drivers of horses," and "hitching horses to awnings," the Roosevelt County Herald reported.

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