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RE: 117. Today in 1920s Turkey: 11 October 1923 (Geographic Vestigial Dismemberment)
Excellent one. That humor is timeless. :) Bird and map fits perfect.
Anticipating the state as a republic is kind of surprising! It really anticipates the ongoing republic transition. However the sultanate was abolished at 1922 so I guess that the most of literate people anticipate that move.
For me the most surprising thing is journal's of that era were much more political and high profiled. Look at today's junks.
I agree, it hits all the notes just perfectly. And I don't know how the artist looked at an Ottoman map and was creative enough to see that bird and its relation to the new borders. It's an admirable composition altogether.
Re: the Republican chronology. You are correct, it would have been odd to see such a presumptuous or premature labeling perhaps a month or two ago, but by this time most people were pretty sure that the form of government would be a Republic (or that, at least it needed to be something because yes, there was no longer a sultan). Now, what people did not expect was the abolition of the Caliphate 4 months later in March 1924. That one was a surprise.