| Mesdames— | George V. King |
| Charles C. Knapp | Henry A. Lloyd |
| John H. Cole Jr. |
Do not use a comma between a man's name and the title "Jr." or "Sr." as John Jones Jr.
Use the apostrophe to mark elision: I've, 'tis, don't, can't, won't, canst, couldst, dreamt, don'ts, won'ts, '80s.
Use the apostrophe in possessives and use it in the proper place: the boy's clothes, boys' clothes, Burns' poems, Fox's Martyrs, Agassiz's works, ours, yours, theirs, hers, its (but "it's" for it is). George and John's father was a good man; Jack's and Samuel's fathers were not.
Do not use the apostrophe when making a plural of figures, etc.: all the 3s, the Three Rs.
Do not use the apostrophe in Frisco, phone, varsity, bus.
Use an em dash after a man's name when placed at the beginning in reports of interviews, speeches, dialogues, etc.: John Jones—I have nothing to say. (No quotation marks.)
In a sentence containing words inclosed in parentheses, punctuate as if the part in parentheses were omitted: if there is any point put it after the last parenthesis.
Use brackets to set off any expression or remark thrown into a speech or quotation and not originally in it: "The Republican party is again in power—[cheers]—and is come to stay."
Use the conjunction "and" and a comma before the last name in a list of names, etc.: John, George, James, and Henry.