Great find Tim, there certainly is a lot to be studied. The "young lady cigarette maker" cabinets are often found with a "Crop of 1884" mount. A&G has period literature that states they cured their tobacco 3 years before rolling it into cigarettes and I have thus always dated them to 1887 but your news clipping find suggests they were available by late 1886.
I recently did a deep dive into some Tobacco Journals and posted some of my A&G findings here:
www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=256798
I also wrote an article for Old Cardboard (issue #34) that covers far more than just the A&G issues based on what the same journal had to offer.
http://www.oldcardboard.com/misc/issue34/issue34.asp