 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.The St. Paul newspaper indicated the Duluth restaurant specifically served ice cream with blueberry pie.