Hi Ted,
If you want to hide default content from theme then you can follow the following steps:
Go to Dashboard => Appearance => Customize => Basic Setting => And click in the Hide default content from theme => Then save it.
Please use the following steps to fix your issue:
Go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Widget=> Banner=> Then put the Text Widget inside the banner widget=> After that please use the image url inside the content but use the image url like this
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Then save it.
We hope this will be helpful to you if not then please let us know.
Thanks