Readers mock IRS over threats to seize pay and property
A letter barrage quotes a reader’s tale of IRS demand letters after providing a son’s birth and school records. The anecdote ends with a clerk allegedly stopping further notices by copying the child’s documents. The column also shares multiple letters on nurse attire and professionalism from Mesa to Rockford and Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Landers
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Taxpayer Service
R.N
Florida
Dear Heloise: Warranty receipt tips and curtain fix
A reader relays a warranty dispute where lack of a sales receipt voids coverage and notes that many warranties start at purchase date, not manufacture. Advice urges saving receipts. another reader describes attaching self gripping fabric tape to a shower curtain to keep water off the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heloise
Roslyn Garett
Springfield, Mo
Maria Roe
Tampa
Fla
Understanding hiatal hernia and reflux treatment steps
A patient with a hiatal hernia experiences stomach acid regurgitation causing daily pain. Advice covers reducing reflux through lifestyle changes, bed elevation, avoiding triggers, antacids, and acid-reducing medications like cimetidine or ranitidine, with prescription options if self-treatment fails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. Donohue
W.C
Crosswords by Eugene Sheffer puzzle highlights
Readable clues from a Sheffer crossword segment list entries including 31 Stratagem 34 Tummy muscles 35 Send 36 Arduous journeys 37 Dilapidated 39 Greek X 40 Feast famine 41 Talk like an ass 45 Lamb serving 48 Dante's love 50 Eerie radiance 51 Actress Singer 52 Fib 53 Tito originally 54 Remnant 66 Eccentric Stan 11 Rocket function time 28 ming 16 Bakery offering 20 Triangle part 23 Story 24 Author Dinesen 26 Material 27 Garage job 28 Greek peak 29 Practice pugilism 32 Skilled 33 Colonial newscaster 35 Bear hair 36 Achilles' mom 138 Autumnal atone 30 Bear's cousin 42 Harbor city near Kilauea 43 Low-pH 44 Garden intruder 45 Urban transpon t Ben ulo 49 Long time
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Tito
Crump
Bear Hai
Achilles
Harbor City
Kilauea
Ulo
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