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Show TINY BIT OF RADIUM WORTH $15,000 LOST DES MOINES, Iowa, June lb. The I loss of $15,000 Worth of radium was discovered at Mercy hospital here today to-day and a scrutiny i every waste receptacle, re-ceptacle, nook and corner of the hospital hos-pital has been instituted to find the Itlny drop of precious substance, which lis said to bo no larger than the head of a pin Hospital officials scout robbery theories. The radium was loU in one of the operating rdoms where a pa-tlent pa-tlent was being treated for cancer It was laid on a piece of cotton and is thought to have been carried off by Jnnitora in the waste basket |