Abbreviate thus: Wash., Mont., S. D., N. D., Wyo., Cal., Wis., Colo., Ind., Id., Kan., Ariz., Okla., Me. Do not abbreviate Oregon, Iowa, Ohio, Utah, Alaska, or Texas.
Abbreviate thus: Madison, Dane County, Wis.: but Dane County, Wisconsin.
Use the abbreviations U. S. N. and U. S. A. after a proper name.
Y. M. C. A., W. C. T. U., M. E. are good abbreviations.
Abbreviate names of months when preceding date only when the month contains more than five letters: Jan. 20; but April 20. When the date precedes the month in reading matter spell it out: the 13th of January; the 26th inst.
Abbreviate "Number" before figures: No. 10.
Abbreviate contract, article, section, question, answer, after the first in bills, by-laws, testimony, etc.: Section 1., Sec. 2.; Question—, Answer—, Q.—, A.—.
Do not abbreviate railway, company, the names of streets, wards, avenues, districts, etc.: Madison Street Railway Company; State street, Monona avenue.
Street and avenue are sometimes abbreviated in want-ads: State-st, Monona-av.
Spell out numbered streets and avenues up to 100th: Thirty-fourth street, 134th street.
Use & in names of firms, but use the long "and" in names of railroads. Use Etc. and not &c.; use Brothers and not Bros. (except in ads); use & only when necessary to abbreviate in stocks.
Do not abbreviate the names of political parties except in election returns, then: Dem., Rep., Soc., Lab., Ind., Pro., Un. Cit.