How to put page-title inside of my content's first panel?
Given the theme's use of Panels, I would suggest looking into the default panels it uses and whether or not the title field can be manipulated in that way, so that the title could be placed in any given section you want.

EDIT from OP

"Just so. For future readers: I accessed Panopoly > Pages under the admin menu to alter the default page templates. Then for the generic Content Page, set "Title type" to "No title" and edit the settings for the content panel to "Override title" as "%node:title", "h1"."