Boxing fans in Cleveland are crying foul after referee Eddie Davis called a controversial draw between featherweight Chick Suggs of New Bedford and Filipino fighter Johnny Datto at Public Hall. According to The Cleveland Plain Dealer's blow-by-blow coverage, Suggs clearly won nine of twelve rounds, with Datto taking only one round where he nearly knocked out Suggs in the eleventh. The 9,000 spectators who witnessed what the paper called a "rotten decision" weren't buying Davis's scorecard. Meanwhile, the heavyweight boxing world is in chaos as New York's boxing commission threatens to revoke promoter Tex Rickard's license if he arranges a Dempsey-Tunney fight instead of forcing champion Jack Dempsey to face Harry Wills, the "black peril" from New Orleans who's already setting up training camp in the Ramapo mountains.

These boxing stories capture 1926 America's complicated relationship with race and entertainment. While Black athletes like Harry Wills and "Tiger" Flowers dominated their sports, they faced institutional barriers—Dempsey had been avoiding Wills for years, and boxing commissions wielded their power to control matches. Meanwhile, The Gazette itself embodies the era's segregated media landscape, serving Cleveland's Black community with coverage often ignored by white newspapers. The prominence given to Florence Mills, called "America's Raquel Meller" by critic George Jean Nathan, reflects the Harlem Renaissance's cultural flowering, even as she performed in "the far reaches of Harlem" rather than Broadway's mainstream theaters.

• You could buy a 30x3½ cord tire for just 95 cents or a car battery for $9.75 from Ohio Auto Supply—and they'd throw in six months of free newspaper delivery with any $10 purchase
• Magic Shaving Powder promised 'a clean, healthy shave without using a razor' for just 30 cents, with enough powder for 15 shaves mailed from Savannah, Georgia
• Governor A.V. Donahey personally wrote to Dr. W.S. Scarborough promising that 'The Birth of a Nation' would never be shown in Ohio as long as he remained governor, calling the film racially inflammatory
• Florence Mills was performing at 'a quondam moving picture house called the Alhambra' in Harlem, in a show called 'The Blackbirds of 1926'
• Out of 40 potential jurors questioned in the Sweet case in Detroit, only 15 admitted they were free from race prejudice and could give a fair trial

• That controversial referee Eddie Davis was from Akron—home to future boxing legends and tire manufacturing, though The Gazette declared he should 'never be allowed to referee another match in Cleveland'
• Harry Wills, training for his shot at Jack Dempsey, was setting up camp in New York's Ramapo Mountains—the same rugged area that would later become a popular retreat for celebrities and where parts of 'The Sopranos' were filmed
• The Sweet case mentioned was the famous Detroit trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet, whose family's move to an all-white neighborhood sparked violence—it became a landmark NAACP case that helped establish the right of self-defense
• Florence Mills, praised as 'America's foremost feminine player,' would tragically die just one year later at age 31, with her Harlem funeral drawing over 150,000 mourners—one of the largest in New York history
• Those cord tires advertised for under a dollar would be worth about $15 today, yet represented cutting-edge pneumatic technology that was revolutionizing automotive safety