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Ad Citations - Pronunciation Help

Posted: June 21st, 2018, 8:11 am
by msfry
I posted this in Pronunciation help and was referred here.

Can anyone help me figure how to read the last bit on these lines, each one symbolizes a Southern US newspaper advertisement from the 1850's. They are scattered throughout Part 3, Chapters 3 and 4 of the project A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54812/

Dadeville, Sept. 1, 1852. 1tf
Monroe, Feb. 17, 1852. 15–3m
Dec. 21. 53 ‡tds.
Terms, &c. &c.
Nov. 11 30 x3
Nov. 20 37 †xtf
Nov. 5-dly.
Sept. 13, 1852. twtf (J)

I can't find anything online, so any help would be appreciated.

Re: Ad Citations - Pronunciation Help

Posted: June 21st, 2018, 8:52 am
by Peter Why
At a guess, the abbreviations show when a particular paper was published; the last "twtf" being Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, for example.

"txtf" possibly Tueday to Friday, excluding Wednesday ...

Peter