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Perhaps one of Gilligan’s ancestors… What does it mean?

Posted By TimHughes On In Food for Thought,Old West Era,Post Civil War,The Collectible Community,Unusual, Fun & Bizarre | No Comments

blog-11-28-2016-stough-and-davisAn issue of “The Gunnison Advertiser [1]” from Colorado, 1882, notes that it is: “Published Semi-Occasionally…”. Just what does this mean? If “occasionally” means it is not on any set schedule–printed at the whim of the publisher–how much more defining is “semi-occasionally”?

Just curious. Any ideas?