La Revolucion Viernes 20 de Enero de 1899. Número Extraordinario Dedicado á la Memoria del Insigne Patriota y Eminente Republicano

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4 pages on a single broadsheet of newsprint in Spanish and Tagalog. EXTREMELY RARE.

A special issue of La Revolucion, one of many newspapers issued in support of the Filipino revolutionaries fighting against American colonialist forces in the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century. The present issue is “dedicated to the memory of the distinguished patriot and eminent republican” Graciano Lopez Jaena who was born in Jaro in 1856.
Jaena (1856-1896) was a Filipino leader of the Propaganda Movement in Spain that helped eventually lead to the revolution in the Philippines. Jaena himself was a prominent journalist and editor well known for his own newspaper, La Solidaridad. Sadly, Jaena died in Barcelona in 1896 and was never able to witness the eventual independence of his mother country.
“La Revolucion was a weekly newspaper started in Jaro, a suburb of Iloilo, in 1898 whose circulation was entirely local and very limited.” [Carson Taylor].
The text is comprised of laudatory memorials, poems, and biographical remembrances by a variety of authors, mostly in Spanish but with most of the pieces on the fourth page printed in Tagalog.