A World War I taxi that carried French troops to the legendary Battle of the Marne is crossing the Atlantic to appear at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia. The Paris Post of the American Legion shipped one of only two remaining 'Taxis of the Marne' — those civilian cars that famously rushed reinforcements to stop the German advance in 1914. At a ceremony at the Renault factory in Billancourt, the freshly painted taxi, adorned with small American and French flags, was presented with messages from Marshal Foch and French veteran committees. Meanwhile, closer to home in Montreal, a coroner's jury has returned a criminal verdict against Dr. Léon Dubois in connection with the death of 21-year-old Bertine Girouard, who died from an illegal abortion operation.

This French-language newspaper from Maine captures the complex international relationships of 1926. Eight years after the Armistice, American and French veterans were still cementing their wartime bonds through symbolic gestures like the taxi shipment. The American Legion had become a powerful political force, and their conventions drew international attention. Meanwhile, stories of illegal abortions and tragic accidents reflected the social realities of the era — a time when medical procedures were often dangerous and unregulated, and when French-Canadian communities in New England maintained strong cultural ties to both their ancestral homeland and their North American neighbors.

• Queen Marie of Romania has been offered $25,000 (about $400,000 today) to appear in a single day of filming for a movie version of Tolstoy's 'Resurrection'
• A milk deliveryman in Montreal found a gold chalice wrapped in chamois leather in an alley behind the Chili restaurant — believed stolen from a church three weeks earlier
• Baseball's 1926 World Series broke 19 records, with 328,051 fans paying a total of $1,207,864 to watch all seven games between New York and St. Louis
• Canadian customs now prohibits tourists from bringing revolvers or pistols into the country, though rifles are permitted with a deposit equal to the gun's tax value
• The newly completed Sabattus Street in Lewiston spans 6,600 feet and is 46 feet wide, featuring 10 inches of crushed stone mixed with tar and topped with stone dust

• Those 'Taxis of the Marne' mentioned in the headline helped save Paris in 1914 when General Gallieni commandeered 600 Paris taxis to rush 6,000 troops to the front — the first time motor vehicles played a decisive role in military history
• The $25,000 movie offer to Queen Marie of Romania was part of Hollywood's first major push to cast real royalty in films — she would indeed accept and become one of the first crowned heads to appear in movies
• Babe Ruth's four home runs in the 1926 World Series mentioned here were hit despite playing with a severely infected toe that required him to cut a hole in his shoe
• Le Messager was part of a thriving French-language press in New England that served over 400,000 French-Canadians — at this time, Lewiston was about 60% French-speaking
• The Renault factory where the taxi ceremony took place would later become infamous for producing tanks for Nazi Germany, leading to Louis Renault's arrest for collaboration in 1944