So, here's the actual page for that map at the top of the post; the actual content of the article is in accordance with Betteridge's law of headlines.

Obviously the main post here goes waaaay past the question of the authenticity of an anachronistic map, but I'm not even going to try with that stuff. Really old newspapers are a fascinating lens on history, and much more worth reading than conspiracy-theory free-association, except at the higher ranks of such performance art e.g. Time Cube.