 So confident in their findings were these three respectable men that they published a report in the Newbury City paper. The Postmaster refused to sign it. Since the 24-hour news cycle had yet to be invented, newspapers in Boston picked up on the story, leading to the widespread notoriety of Newbury's haunted schoolhouse. Based on the investigation of the school committee, it was recommended that schoolmistress Perkins be granted a few weeks' vacation.