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PG was walking down Peachtree Street downtown when a man gave him what appeared to be a dollar bill. Since there were not crowds of people asking for seconds, PG assumed that it was an ad gimmick. He put it in his pocket, and did not look at it until later.
The handout was a faux million dollar bill. On the front was a picture of President James A.Garfield . Mr. Garfield had been President less than 200 days when he was shot by Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled federal office seeker, on July 2, 1881. After receiving incompetent medical attention, Mr. Garfield died in Elberon, NJ, September 19, 1881.
Today the name Garfield is associated with a cartoon cat. The cat was named for the cartoonist’s father, who was named for President Garfield. PG does not know who former Georgia Governor Lester Garfield Maddox is named for.
According to wikianswers , there has never been a million dollar bill. The gimmick handed PG is worth roughly the paper it is printed on. This is disputed by the first line of the message on the back. “It’s not real money; it’s the priceless message of the gospel. The Bible says, “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”” Yes, the million dollar bill was a gospel tract.
The text of the message is familiar to anyone living in the United States. It is the concept that you go to hell, if you don’t agree with the  scheme for life after death. PG has heard this rhetoric a million times, and is unlikely to change his mind because of a phony million dollar bill.
Wikianswers tells of others who use faux currency. (Some say conventional paper money is a FRAUD, or Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Dollar.) In 2001, a man bought a sundae at Dairy Queen with a $200 bill. The bill featured a picture of George W. Bush. The Dairy Queen gave the man $198 in change. In March 2004, Alice Regina Pike used a $1,000,000 bill, illustrated by the Statue of Liberty, to pay for $1,671.55 in merchandise at a Wal Mart in Covington, GA. She was arrested.
Pictures for today’s amusement…other than the million dollar bill…are from The Library of Congress.