Spanish Peanuts

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I just discovered that for some reason, in the mid-1970s, The Pomona, California newspaper Progress Bulletin began running Peanuts in Spanish, with English subtitles. Let me be clear that this is something that they did only with Peanuts; not only are there no other comic strips so subtitled, there is no Spanish to be found anywhere else in the paper.

Translating humor can be difficult. Note that the added text in the final panel is not the signature GROG, as I first thought, but the number 6206; the strips were sequentially numbered.
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