 The reporter was said to have written about the incident in the very next issue of "The Sun".A reporter from the "St. Paul Pioneer Press" read Townsend’s obituary in the "New York Times" and considered that the "Times" had incorrectly attributed the invention of pie à la mode to Townsend.The newspaper accordingly ran a story on May 23, 1936 about how the dessert was in fact invented inside a Superior Street restaurant in Duluth, Minnesota in the 1880s.