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over an old skating rink on Fourth Avenue between Eighth and Ninth Streets, and turned it
into the Lyric movie house. Chapman was elected Huntington mayor in 1912—just in time
to preside over a flooded town in 1913.
Huntington's newspapers continued publishing during the 1913 flood, but accomplishing
that feat was not easy. The Fourth Avenue plant of the Herald-Dispatch was underwater, so
