Here's a precursor to Obi Wan deactivating the tractor beam on the Death Star to help Princess Leia escape (nearly a quarter century before Star Wars debuted).  From Super Science Stories, 1951.

As you suspected, Neapolitan ice cream is made by grafting branches from different ice cream trees.  From Fantastic Adventures, 1950.

From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.

From Lasell's 1896 yearbook.

From North Central's 1968 yearbook.

Tag yourself.  From Le Charivari, 1845.

Here's a precursor to robot priests, like this one who runs a 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, and this one in Germany that bestows blessings in five languages.

From La Colotte, 1908.

It's like a direct line into my dreams (if you swap the belly dancers for go-go boys.)  From Startling Stories, 1951.

Even when scanned poorly, Hildegarde stares into your soul.  From The Magic Nuts by Mrs. Molesworth and illustrated by Rosie M. M. Putman, 1898.