How to get rid of a duplicate title on the front page? When I first made the front page, I created a Basic Page and selected "Promoted to Front Page" and thought I was done.  Drupal insisted on showing this page as an article summary, and no manner of tweaking settings on my part prevented this behavior.  I decided instead to put the main front page content in a block because it will seldom ever change.

I created my block, and yay!  No more summarized front page content.  However, the title of the page shows twice.  The first is the title of the original basic page I created, the second is the title of the block I created.  I've already cleared the cache and there was no change.

How do I get rid of the duplicate?
It sounds like you have node as your front page which lists summaries of content that is promoted to the front page by default. That's the way Drupal comes configured out of the box. If I understand correctly, what you're looking for though is a single node to be displayed in full on the front page.

You can change it from node (which shows a list) to your specific Node at admin/config/system/site-information or Configuration -> Site Information under the "Front Page" section. Simply change "node" to "node/[node-id]" where [node-id] = the nid of the node you want to appear on the front page: