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The answer is yes, and you don't need the locally finite hypothesis. 

**Theorem.** For every acyclic relation $\langle S,\prec\rangle$, there is an order-preserving injective map from $S$ to a locally finite linear order. 

Proof. Suppose $\langle S,\prec\rangle$ is an acylic relation. Let $\leq$ be the reachability relation on this digraph, that is, the transitive closure of $\prec$. This is a partial order on $S$, because $\prec$ is acyclic. Since every partial order extends to a linear
order, we may inject $\prec$ order-preserving into a linear order $L$. Further, every linear order $L$ sits inside a locally finite linear order, simply by taking $L$ copies of $\Z$, that is, by embedding $L$ into $\Z\times L$ with the usual order (reverse lexical order). This new order looks locally just like $\Z$, and so it is locally finite.
Basically, you replace each point in the linear order with a copy of $\Z$. QED

So one doesn't need the locally finite hypothesis, and also the embedding can be injective.