This came the year after the New York Times announced two giant new canals on Mars and five years after the New York Times announced that Martians are superior.
TimesMachine: August 27, 1911 – NYTimes.com
TimesMachine: November 10, 1907 – NYTimes.com
TimesMachine: January 1, 1911 – NYTimes.com
It came one year after the US government and the New York Times said we were about to run out of coal and wood and would be running 100% wind power.