Hundreds of Selectmen Leave Birmingham Soon: Dee Sisson

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Read from the image (line breaks not kept). The clipped region is the second half of the Division No. 1 list, which ends where "Division No. 2" begins; his name is in its eleventh line.

… Paul Hugh Sellers, Palestine Bailey Milling, Sidney Cunningham McDuff, Earl Slaughter Davis, Phillip Glenn Sulzby, Dennis Gerald Woods, Frank Beaver, Al Soots, Homer Theo. Wells, James Manly Wood, Dee Sisson, David Franklin Mason, Carl Frederick Rugenstein, Tom Love Vance, John Francis McDuff, John M. Abel, Robert Emmet Moon, … Stewart Oliver Bliss.

DIVISION NO. 2

The head of the article (above the clipped region; read from the whole page): "Hundreds of Selectmen Leave Birmingham Soon. Pepperman Makes Public List of 665 White Men and 651 Colored Who Will Be Sent Away Next Friday and Tuesday." Secretary B. A. Pepperman had made public the names of the selectmen "who are soon to leave for the army"; the white selectmen were to report at Capitol Park at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, 24 June, "where they will prepare to take the train to Camp Pike, Ark." The list follows under "Division No. 1".

Citation: "Hundreds of Selectmen Leave Birmingham Soon," The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.), Sunday 16 June 1918, p. 3; image, Chronicling America, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038485/1918-06-16/ed-1/?sp=3).