sity of Wisconsin from the style
books of many newspapers._
=1. Capitalize:=
All proper nouns: Smith, Madison, Wisconsin.
Months and days of the week, but not the seasons of the year: April,
Monday; but autumn.
The first word of every quotation, enumerated list, etc., following
a colon.
The principal words in the titles of books, plays, lectures,
pictures, toasts, etc., including the initial "a" or "the": "The
Merchant of Venice," "Fratres in Urbe." If a preposition is
attached to or compounded with the verb capitalize the preposition
also: "Voting _For_ the Right Man."
The names of national political bodies: House, Senate, Congress, the
Fifty-first Congress.
The names of national officers, national departments, etc.:
President, Vice President, Navy Department, Department of Justice
(but not bureau of labor), White House, Supreme Court (and all
courts), the Union, Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, Union Jack,
United States army, Declaration of Independence, the (U. S.)
Constitution, United Kingdom, Dominion of Canada.
All titles preceding a proper noun: President Taft, Governor-elect
Wilson, ex-President Roosevelt, Policeman O'Connor.
The entire names of associations, societies, leagues, clubs,
companies, roads, lines, and incorporated bodies generally: Mason,
Odd Fellow, Knights Templar, Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias,
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Wisconsin University, First
National Bank, Schlitz Brewing Company (but the Schlitz brewery),
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company, the Association of Passenger and Ticket Agents of
the Northwest, Clover Leaf Line, Rock Island Road, Chicago Board
of Trade, New York Stock Exchange (but the board of trade and the
stock exchange).
The names of all religious denominations, etc.: Catholic,
Protestant, Mormon, Spiritualist, Christian Science, First
Methodist Church (but a Methodist church), the Bible, the Koran,
Christian, Vatican, Quirinal, Satan, the pronouns of the Deity.
The names of all political parties (both domestic and foreign):
Republican, Socialism, Socialist, Democracy, Populist, Free
Silverite, Labor party, (but anarchist).
Sections of the country: the North, the East, South America;
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